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March 13, 2019March 15, 2019Snowbird of Paradise

What If Your Secret Could Get You Fired?

Sega has stopped selling a video game because one of the voice actors has been arrested for cocaine use. Normally I would not care about this or even know about it, except that my oldest son pointed out that the distinction between an artist and their art has become erased. It seems clear to him […]

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December 21, 2016Snowbird of Paradise

Stealing Secrets: The Journal Under the Mattress

Imagine you are fifteen years old. You have been keeping a journal for as long as you can remember. It is one of those journals with a hard cover and a lock on it; nobody else is meant to read it. In that journal, you have written about your frustrations with your parents, the friend […]

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March 14, 2014July 7, 2014Snowbird of Paradise

The Bags I Have Packed

I sometimes find myself wishing that someone will see me when I am tapping my foot to music or singing along with my iPod. I want people to see me as cheerful and lighthearted and musically inclined. When I go outside, no one knows who I am. They don’t know who I once was, the […]

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