Jinked

I’ve noticed a lot of people talking about and linking various body image posts on Twitter and Facebook lately, primarily this piece which links to this, which also began circulating among friends and acquaintances. Reading them, I was thinking about body image, self-esteem, how I sometimes see and unconsciously judge people without getting to know them as a person first. There is no getting around [...]

I remember calling my father late in January of last year, my fingers shaking over the keys of my cell phone, and asking him if he thought it would be foolish to resign from my job. I wanted to take time off. To do creative things. Deep inside myself I was afraid he would confirm my fears, and that I would be stuck forever in [...]

In the midst of the Snowpocalypse I have been ever-diligent in looking for a place to call “my employer.” I’ve graduated from job boards, now looking at individual websites of small creative shops, boutiques, and companies in Chicago. Last week I exhausted what few options I had here in Northwest Indiana. The more I think about it and the more that I look for places [...]

This morning I jolted awake to the alarm on my phone at 7:00 in the morning. This was to get myself showered, dressed, fed, and ready to catch the 9:08 train in order to make an 11:30 interview with a creative staffing agency in Chicago. I needed four and a half hours to get to an 11:30 appointment. How do people commute? But as Ben [...]