I have heard the euphemisms peppered in the title of this article ad-nauseam while working in every corner of corporate America for over a decade now. Hearing them never ceases to make me cringe. They evoke images of an intractable series of ladders and mazes in a fixed game. And my participation somehow obligatory as …
Dear Television: My earliest memories were of your mesmerizing halations and dancing lights. You were the centerpiece in the living rooms of all the homes I have ever called home. The North Star to which all the furniture pointed. I ate meals in front of you. I slept in front of you. My dates, few …
I am the unceremonious type when it comes to my own birthdays. They come and go like any other day I squandered prior to it, and any of the days that I apathetically assumed would follow. I turned 34 years old today (May 2023). Dramatic action has supplanted the indifference of yesteryear in an effort …
The real estate agent mechanically recited the property’s impressive square footage and bespoke features as our procession navigated the serpentine path through the spacious condo on a tree-lined street in a swanky, hip neighborhood. The imagery and narrative I had been conditioned by through my years of mindless entertainment and advertisement consumption appeared to have …