Writing down my daily expenses isn't always easy. Lately, there have been curve balls that I have had to catch. My credit card is in use. I had to take cash away from groceries to cover the gas. Inflation is real. While I do have more than one source of [...]
My head hung in utter despair. Living paycheck to paycheck was reaching a breaking point. I knew that I could no longer live like this. Once again, I attempted to hire a financial planner to assist me. When my request for a form that does not include the word husband [...]
He smiled at me and asked for a business card. This particular Sunday afternoon found me performing at a holistic conference in Fort Lauderdale. He contacted me a few days later only to find me in the middle of a dress fiasco. The dress looked horrible and the sales lady […]
It was the height of my grad school semester. Notes, schedules, and exams were all about. When the poet called to inform me that he had, “an awesome gig” for me, I listened. He said that it was a performance with him in Miami. I had no problem with that. […]
WALGREENS GUY. by Crystal Sawyer (Notes) on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 7:59pm October 3, 2011 I went to Walgreens one day to have some pictures enlarged. The Walgreens guy assisted me. We got to talking, and I told him that I was a musician. This seemed to be of […]
The idea that someone was trying to manipulate me into spending money so that he could get a comission after I said that I wasn’t interested truly bothered me to the core. I was already disturbed by the fact that he had put my coworker in the middle of this […]
It was the week before work was suppossed to resume. I was still dealing with the aftermath of my accident and now the reality of being stressed out again was quickly dawning on me. My cell phone rang. It was a man that knew my name. He requested a meeting […]