It's 1500 on a bright California afternoon. It's October and the air conditioning is on. My new kitten (Perseus, Destroyer of the Kraken) is sunbathing on the windowsill. I look out the window of my apartment: my space cadet neighbor is listening to Sublime on the radio, someone's talking about going surfing after class, the sidewalks are crowded with dozens of USC students walking and biking back and forth from class, the...read more

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$80,000… If you had $80,000, what could you do with it? You could live in New York City for 114 months. You could be the proud owner of 20 1996 Honda Accords. You could fly round trip from Los Angeles to New York at least 228 times. You could have 533 months of groceries or own 4,000 Yankee hats. Or have your sink professionally unclogged 800 times (steak fat cannot go in the garbage disposal, for future reference). Or you...read more

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A lot of my friends back home don't really get it. It's difficult for them to figure out why, after graduating college, I chose to move 3,000 miles across country and join the Army. I tried to explain and give them time to adjust. But three weeks after graduation, I found myself in Fort Knox, Kentucky for LTC; a crash course in leadership, basic soldiering skills, and intestinal fortitude....read more

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