Category: First course
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Surrounded
I am surrounded by the nicest, the best, the most wonderful. And yet I manage to say goodbye with all the courage I don’t have, with the mere brush of a kiss I feel with every fiber of my being. And then I walk away. I am surrounded by debt. Horrific, never-ending loans and back…
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Junior High Pals
Think back, a long time back, to when you were a 13-year-old dweeb, even if you were cool. Because no one is ever really cool when they are 13. In our hearts, in our minds–in reality–we were all awkward as hell. I was cool, but then again, I was so not. I know this. I…
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Keys Dating Pool
I knew my rent was not enough to cover anyone’s mortgage. I knew it was too good to be true. And it is. My landlord’s house–my home–is in foreclosure. I am faithfully sending rent payments to someone who is not faithfully making her mortgage payments. “Don’t worry,” said the handsome lawyer who showed up at…
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I Could Never!
“I could never be a waitress in a busy place,” I told Upset Waitress before I moved from Fort Lauderdale to become a waitress in a busy place. In fact, I could. I did. I do. “I could never be a bartender, even in a quiet locals’ place. It’s been too long ago since I…
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Time When
I revised a post that I wrote last week and took down. It’s about friendship between men and women, and it begs the question: Is it truly possible for single men and single women to be friends–only friends? Popular saying in these parts: A Keys guy never really breaks up with a girl. He just…
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Pulling Posts
Yep, I pulled my last post, for those of you who are wondering where it went or why it’s not here. As I have expressed to many, my posts are reflections on an interlude or incident or feeling surrounding a certain moment in my time. On a rare occasion, I re-visit a post after an…
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Easy Days, Peaceful Nights
Three firsts this week: –A customer got very, very angry with me and slammed money on the counter, spitting out the words in her heavy French accent, “This is for you, even though it was all terrible. Terrible!” –I won two out of three games of bowling. Understand, I haven’t bowled in years, and before…
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Through Her Eyes
RG Daughter is in town for a few days, and as always when she visits, I wonder how she views my current state of life. Her first visit to Fort Lauderdale was with RG Son several months after I had moved there. I was living in my ghetto apartment furnished with only the bare necessities,…
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Breaking Up is Hard to Watch
I make a point to visit my bartender girlfriend whenever I go up to Fort Lauderdale. I don’t go too often, for many reasons, not the least of which is that getting there is a schlep and, beyond my bartender girlfriend and my pilot girlfriend, I have a lot of reasons to steer clear of…
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All is Always Good, Right?
If I drunk email my day-at-a-time boy and he answers very soon in a hopeful way, it’s good, right? Even if I know it’s all just an email that is pretty much meaningless, right? If I meet the guy that Upset Waitress is sure is the one for me, and he seems great, and even…