Mike and I knew that we wanted to try to start a family right away, so we decided to go all out on our honeymoon. We saved like crazy and budgeted and worked overtime and we managed to have our dream vacation: seven days in Fiji and five in Australia. We were beyond excited.
It took [...]

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I don’t know if everyone does this, or if it’s just because I live in Los Angeles, but sometimes I think about who would play me in the movie about my life. And, of course, because my life story wouldn’t be a 100 minute monologue, I also cast the other members of my family. A [...]

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I saw Madonna in concert seven years ago. It was the summer after graduation, and I was working as a bartender at a popular bar in Hermosa Beach. Paying $125 was no small feat, but I was determined to see her. When her tickets went on sale, I tried to get them through evil Ticketmaster, [...]

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