I generally show self-restraint when confronted with tabloid magazines. Yet, there I was trapped in the fifteen items or less “express” line. Someone was paying with a check … and... Read more >>

Unfortunately, just before you take your first step on the righteous journey to pursue your dreams, people around you, even the ones who deeply care for you, will give you awful advice. It’s not... Read more >>

Growing up, I wanted to be a chef, a CIA agent, a detective, and a forest ranger, but I became a writer instead. Is this really the right path for me? I wonder every day. So imagine my joy and... Read more >>

July 29, 2009 I was brought into the manager’s office, where I worked building circuit boards and testing them, I was given a sheet of paper to read, by the HR manager. It said that my job was... Read more >>

Have you ever sat in a meeting where no one agreed on anything? And someone made the suggestion that we get all our differences out in the open. Well, grab hold and buckle your seat. Sometimes... Read more >>

I’ve been writing articles for Divine Caroline for quite a while now, and I’m actually to the point of sending some of them out to different publications to see if anyone else thinks... Read more >>

“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.” – Anonymous As time passes and the so long awaited day of publication gets closer, I have to admit that I am scared to... Read more >>

I have accepted the fact that I am going to forever be called “Teacher?!” and never Lori. I really don’t have a problem with that, actually. Also, I was informed by a... Read more >>

Sometimes I wonder why some people were given the instinctual desire to question authority, culture, rules, society, defaults, the “norm”—and other people were just given the peace... Read more >>

While hacking away selling used-cars, I spent exhausting stretches of time standing in heels in front of showroom windows. I could not sit in my office if I were to capture the next customer on... Read more >>