fueled with my anger and lack of trust for anybody

“For the whole decade of my twenties, I was enrolled in some class or another at the local junior college, working at least two jobs (mostly waiting tables at night and working in retail or at the health club during the day), and burning through relationships. Those usually ended in…

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Vicky Corral and the Vicky C. Hope Foundation

I Met Tina Pansini, sister of the late Vicky Corral at the Tomato Festival a few weeks ago. Tina contacted me shortly after, sharing with me her family’s mission for their non-profit, the Vicky C. Hope Foundation in honor of her sister. Tina invited me to honor her sister at…

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the white in the rainy darkness

“…the white in the rainy darkness finally jolts me into the severity of what is rapidly unfolding in front of me.”

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A sense of floating comes over our now gliding shelter

“A sense of floating comes over our now gliding shelter from the rain storm outside, and it feels like the banana is building momentum. The back of my car starts to skid sideways, backandforth, sidetoside.”

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