She sat there sipping black coffee , so much of it that she wondered if it would turn her blood black. Black blood was a thing. She read about it in a Jo Nesbo novel. If you stabbed someone in the liver you would watch the blood pour out black.

Apparently...

Something about networking events makes you act different. Especially when around someone super successful. You start trying to think of interesting things to say. You begin feeling like the beginning lines of Eminem 's Lose Yourself. 

I've been around that rodeo enough now that I catch myself. You don't need...

"Good thing you are still young." 

Her casual remark caught me off guard. 

For the most part I'd stopped seeing myself as young. Maybe cause of the industry I'm in.

I thought about this for too long until a switch finally flipped and I suddenly couldn't stop thinking that she was...

We are born into this world, nurtured and loved until we reach the age of adolescence. Then it's up to each of us to move on. As we age, we shed beliefs, ideas and ideals that fail when faced with an overly complex experience.

The way his parents loved her,...

My friend's death brought together so many people in just our small town community that he had fostered in his short time here. It was a gathering of people grateful to have known him. I can't even guess how big the gathering in New York is for him.

Someone said that...

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I'm not the type of person who has a set time each day where I just go and watch a TV show. I"m either binging something or I'm not watching anything at all. When I first watched Squid Game it...

When you learn the lesson it will be too late. 

By that I mean that by the time you learn the thing you wish you knew now, you'll either have already solved the problem that currently chains you, or you will have already solved it, 

The latter scenario might seem...

On my way to Trevor's dad's, I tried listening to The Meadowlands , but couldn't. Initially I thought I might try finding something else, but I didn't want to distract my eyes from the road so I fiddled with the analog radio dial instead, surfing through some local ads and...

Matthew McConaughey had an office in a building I helped manage right out of college. His was one half of the third story to an unassuming brick building in a quieter, yet still urban part of Westcity . It was one of those neighborhood urban spots rather than the main...