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Fizzes and Tickles

"What'll you have?" "Beer's good." The fizz tickled. An hours-old "It's definitely you , not me " declaration and a final exit's relief echoes in my head. A job is life's filler. Not the other way 'round. Fizzes, tickles...taste like freedom.

The Time I Copied Kim Kardashian and Wrote A Letter to Myself

It isn’t too often I take a page from Kim Kardashian (like never), but doggone it, she had a good idea: writing to her future self. Thanks for the find,  VProud ! So, with that in mind, I penned a letter to my ten years from now future self. Dear Rochelle, Geez, you’re so much smarter than the 46 year old me. Remember waiting for Divine Retribution or karma or whatever to take hold and intervene on people ten years ago? You peacefully released the cartoon anvil drop fantasy on folks who were all kinds of wrong. You realized it rains on the just and unjust; and your perceived slights are now mere shadows, if you can remember them at all. You allow a breathing room for your daughter and you to err and to be human. You abandoned the periodic, unsaid mental freakouts over the unexpected, unplanned, unarranged and imperfect. You live an honest and authentic life. Your daughter sees what you’ve been driving toward, and I’ve got a feeling she’ll ...