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Asking questions can lead you to new places. Writing helps bring you to answers. And more questions.
Here, I’ve collected writings on a number of topics. Sometimes they’ve been published elsewhere, and other times they’re just for this blog.
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1. From: Management <Management@RAMJACcorp.com> Date: Friday, June 20, 2015 12:27 PM To: staff <office@RAMJACcorp.com> Subject: Fridge use issues (please read) Everyone, Management is setting a new rule for office fridge use. We really hate to do this, but recent events have tied our hand/s. The process started when Larry brought to our attention that…
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Recently I realized that I have a problem, I admitted it, and I’ve been working to change. Hi, my name is James, and I’m a late-oholic. I’m working on it for two reasons. First, being on time is something you learn in Adulting 101. Also first, I got married, and punctuality is very important to…
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– Nearly one year of rapid-fire planning, scrounging, pulling together every little bit like building sandcastles, and when we moved to the next tower, the tide took away the last. Torture, some might call it. Just chaos, I’d reply. But that’d be forgetting. Because just for a moment as she walked down the aisle, the…
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Hello, I am… an old friend
The text messages came from out of nowhere, it seemed. But really, they came from my good friend, Willi. We hadn’t talked for a long time until he started sending me pictures of his new house. I didn’t even know he was looking for a house. The pictures showed an increasingly more violent campaign against…
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Why I’m excited about 2015!
I tried. I really did. My plan was creating a top 10 list of all the things I’m excited for in 2015, but I can’t. After all, it wouldn’t do the books and albums and mildly important events any justice. Since we all know it wasn’t a fair fight. Sure, some of them are exciting, maybe…
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Tied for third
Aside from work and home, what is the third place I’ve been to this year? I think I have a tie for third: If you asked me at the beginning of this year, I would say school. I spent hours and hours at UIndy, even though I lived off campus. The student newspaper, The Reflector,…
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Part of me is construction
From my desk chair at Angie’s List, I watched two men walk around on the roof of another building. It was wet, and the shingles must’ve been slippery. But there’s something about standing on a roof and looking out over your surroundings. It’s freeing. I stood on top of that building once—before there was a…
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Talking about writing, characters, humanity
In creative writing classes, people say many things that make little to no sense. It turns out that, no matter how much someone loves to read and write, most people are ill-equipped to talk about writing (want proof? Read Billy Collins’ poem “Workshop”). It’s easier to talk about craft in those lower-level composition classes. You can…
James Figy 