Month: July 2016
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Surviving the DNC in Philly
It was a rough week here in Philadelphia. Not only was it 90,000 degrees out pretty much every single day this week, there was also that Democratic National Convention heating things up. An additional 50,000+ bodies made for a sweaty, crowded, and angsty week here in the City of Brotherly Love. But Philly’s tough. We…
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Just Keep Swimming
I am a one-woman self-help book club. Which is to say, I hoard self-help books and then take nine hundred years to maybe finish them (both things we can talk about another time). Recently I’ve picked up a book that I first started reading in 2007 and never finished. A little diddy called “The Success…
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Confessions of a Nervous Girl: The Wedding
My name is Raina and I am a nervous girl. These are my confessions. The Wedding My friend Lauren was getting married. We’d met while waiting tables at Meritage. We’d grown close while bonding over our feelings of being college graduates with two jobs and the perils of being single in your thirties. After…