Tag: unemployment
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Carolina Beach
The Carolinas have always been home. But home means different things to different people. Is home a place? The family you surround yourself with? Is it more of a feeling than a physical structure? For me, home wasn’t just the house I grew up in. It was one- or two-week vacations at Sunset Beach. It…
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Girl, Unemployed: Part I
Unemployment can be a totally foreign concept—until it happens to you. For me, it was two weeks ago today that I got my notice (a short-term contract that was supposed to go permanent), and it’s taken me these two long weeks to write about it. This isn’t the first time it’s happened, actually. Back in…