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An expat in my own hometown.
April 22nd, 2013 This was not my plan. I had a great product I was developing in London. I was going to stay there, build the business, become wealthy and eventually a dual citizen. Somewhere around the time my U.K. Visa expired the plan started to de-rail. I came back to the States (at the…
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Identity reprint
August 1st, 2011 After my MA, I realized that the constant thread through much of my fine art and through the projects for my MA was a concept of identity and community. My tethers to different communities have faded and others become strong bonds. My definition of family has shifted and grown to include a…
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I Pour Tea
March 11th, 2011 So why don’t ya hire me? I just completed another 9 pages of essays, CV, and information for a job application. That doesn’t count the form I filled out as well. I have a CV that is completely stripped of all my accomplishments and half my work that I used to submit…
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It’s a blue, blue, blue, blue world
January 26th, 2011 Don’t let Mamma pick out paint until after the cataract surgery! Years ago, during the period in my life that became known as “my tragic exile” I briefly returned to my hometown to live. My Mother’s response to any crisis in my life was always to tell me “Just come home and…
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Three times in a lifetime
May 1st, 2009 I grew up in a small town in Alabama in big house with white columns with three sisters. It had the usual, spacious, formal rooms, and a big den with a wall of books, the best TV available with all the cable channels available then, and a big fireplace that added to…