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    Jumping Out of Airplanes

    Words by Tim Matson
    Image by Lindsey Shields

    About joining the military, Brian Cox says openly that he always knew he wanted to be in the some branch of armed service. Originally, he says, he wanted to fly fighter jets. However, a heart murmur would prevent him from becoming a naval aviator.

    He came to this conclusion:

    “Well, if I can’t fly airplanes, then I’ll jump out of them,” he says.

    If you ask Rosa Koenig why she joined Air Force ROTC, her answer is simple: “I love the military life; I love the discipline and feel more at home in this atmosphere…I basically grew up in the military.”

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    By Casey | 21 Apr 10 | Also published in Lemon Life @ Work, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Walk To Work

Words by: Tim Matson
Image by: bobster855
Well, that’s not ideal, I thought.  And that explains the tape over the turnstiles.
“How long?” another person in the gaggle cried out.
“We don’t know at this time,” the woman at the ticket booth said.
A disgruntled sigh grumbled up from the group.  I’m not proud of it; I was one of [...]

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By Erika | 15 Feb 10 | Also published in It Could Be Worse | Comments (0)

Loving Love

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By Erika | 10 Feb 10 | Also published in Lemon Love | Comments (0)

On The Parking Lot

Words by: Tim Matson
Image by: MissTurner
The summer after I graduated from college, I went to work at a theatre in Michigan.  It’s one of those set-ups where a crew of college students and recent graduates handles jobs all over the theatre, from building sets and costumes, to cleaning toilets, to performing on stage.  To signaling [...]

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By Erika | 08 Feb 10 | Comments (0)

My Technological Romance

Words by: Tim Matson
Image by: Lin Pernille ♥ Photography
If you google the words “technology isolates people,” you get back over two million hits.  Two million.  That’s a lot of web chatter.  See for yourself.
It is believed by many that technology is isolating: that by having online networks of friends, we never leave the [...]

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By Erika | 03 Feb 10 | Comments (1)

The Ruthless Tooth

Words by: Virginia Manning
Image by: Hugo Arias
It was the end of a long Friday, after a disastrous week at the job I was about to lose anyway—they fired me a week later.  Having maxed out my ability to stay awake and my well of tears, I was on my last shred of energy. It was [...]

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By Erika | 01 Feb 10 | Comments (0)

The Healing Power of a Conga Line

Words by: Adam Weinmann
Image by: Leeay Aikawa
There is no doubt  about it;  we live in a stressful world. The pressures of our complex and fast paced 21st-century existence have a way of building on each other and, with science doggedly taking the place of faith in life, we are left with ever-weaker forces with which [...]

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By Erika | 29 Jan 10 | Comments (0)

The Plan

Words by: Jamie Phillips
Image by: derekvanderlaan
Opinions are funny creatures: sometimes rigid, sometimes fluid, and other times, undetectable. Like hairstyles, they can - and should - evolve over time. As I am clearly a highly evolved person, my opinions are of the fluid variety. As the saying goes, I change my mind as often as I [...]

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By Erika | 27 Jan 10 | Comments (0)

My New Favourite Activity 

Word by: Ryan Lowe
Image by: Pink Sherbet Photography
You notice when someone’s made a radical fashion choice. You can see it in the flock of seagulls hairstyle, the tight purple jeans, the pierced dimples, or the ninja star tattoos. Most of the time, these stylistic blunders elicit the kind of ridicule that we’re all so good [...]

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By Erika | 25 Jan 10 | Comments (0)

Taking a Step Back

Words by: Ryan Johnston
Image by: Jessica Chan

Making decisions is rarely easy.  We all make them, whether it be small or large, we make hundreds of them a day.  Every now and then a day will include a decision that will have an enormous impact on your life.  I had a day just like this [...]

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By Erika | 22 Jan 10 | Comments (1)

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