The Diary of a Gold-Digger

When I got the job in Miami, the Yellow Truck Sweatshop Employer, who shall go unnamed, flew me to Miami for a few days a month before I was...

I moved to Miami for a job with a big company, which will remain unidentified but let's just say "yellow trucks," in the sweat...

My friend Jackie still has not forgiven me for this. She brings it up every time I see her, which sadly, has not been for the past few years...

When I was working for the insurance company, I sold direct and also worked through brokers. Some accounts would take direct bids from the v...

Dr J, my mother's gentleman caller, died suddenly and unexpectedly last week. He fell down the stairs ten days ago, hit his head, went i...

In one of my first jobs after college, I worked for an insurance company that no longer exists as I knew it then. Then, the company required...

Actually, it might have been two dogs. But let me start at the beginning. Before that, I'll tell you I am going for a quick story today ...

I had been accepted at the UT-Austin graduate school of business. My friend Rebecca and I were sharing a house, but she was moving to D.C. f...

I had to move out of the room I was renting from Crazy Carmen in D.C. I had gone to Washington D.C. after I got out of the Peace Corps in th...

I moved from Maruja la Bruja's house (Maruja the Witch) to Janette's house. I had met Janette when I shopped at her knitting store. ...

I will tell you all about Michelle McMichael, the worst landlady I have ever had, but first I need to tell you about other landlords* so you...

After a year and a half of excruciating job search post Peace Corps, I finally got an offer from a large company in Miami that was really a ...

So I was telling you about Stan, the older guy who was my friends' boss who had moved from Austin to attend grad school and who had neck...

I will tell you the rest of the story about Stan, but first I want to talk about what Michelle Z said: Okay, no more beating yourself up for...

As I write these stories, I am amazed at how dumb I was in my 20s. And 30s. What causes someone to act so self destructively? Was my despera...