Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
This is the theme for the summer, so while I apologize…get used to it.
Why do all the jobs I want have to be in the city where it’s so hard to live? I’ve had friends tell me “Oh you HAVE to stay in NYC! That’s where all the writers are,” as if that is a [...]
I’ve been known to give much better advice than I can ever actually follow, and I’m experiencing the marked discomfort of being faced with my suggestions.
I wrote several times in Lotus about individuals within the dance community strengthening themselves for the good of the collective. “We must each bring something to the community for [...]
I’d like to make a deposit, please.
I remember when U2’s movie “Rattle & Hum” came out and my parents and I went to a matinee showing. There was no-one in the theater except us, and Mom and Dad danced through the whole movie in the back row of the theater.
I still remember the first party I went to when I just didn’t feel it. I spent $40 (20 to get in, and 20 to do what I thought you had to do to have fun), six hours, countless liters of sweat, and ended the night thinking “THIS is what I’ve dedicated my life to? [...]
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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