Wowza! I'm happy you found your dream home and your Realtor was an A-hole. So many great nuggets of wisdom in this post! I love your comments about reading a book and not realizing why I'm not sympathetic to the author's woes. It's precisely what you said, you need to paint the whole picture! Congratulations on your new home!
Sorry this happened but congrats on the dream house!
I will never forget this lesson — which you taught me in a small group meeting while a lawyer explained how to protect ourselves in memoirs. My chapter about working at Calvin, which is still going to be called "My devil wore Calvin" has shifted significantly since that time. She comes out far more sympathetic, despite some of her actions, as she was just caught in the rat race of being the only senior female executive. This not only helps my legal concerns but aligns us, and makes us simply fallible humans.
Sounds horrendous Anna. The last house we bought did come furnished...but it also came filthy with full garbage cans, leftovers in the fridge, even a naughty drawer....I am still bitter 5 years later. Lolol. Congrats on the new house!!!
Great post. Wish I had read this years ago. I had to grind through months of false starts, confusing middles, failed endings—even doubting I could write at all. I wouldn’t have even attempted a story like this if someone hadn’t told me I sound too good and all my stories—that a story where I was the bad guy, or at least did bad things, is more vulnerable than some quirky lesson. In the end, like you, I learned a lot of about myself. Maybe I’ll write a similar retrospective one day. For now, this is the story I’m referring to. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7wLhNb1Bxuh7hYZGgghdCz?si=qtgcd5tdSSuMNy6ESwDUOQ
Wowza! I'm happy you found your dream home and your Realtor was an A-hole. So many great nuggets of wisdom in this post! I love your comments about reading a book and not realizing why I'm not sympathetic to the author's woes. It's precisely what you said, you need to paint the whole picture! Congratulations on your new home!
Sorry this happened but congrats on the dream house!
I will never forget this lesson — which you taught me in a small group meeting while a lawyer explained how to protect ourselves in memoirs. My chapter about working at Calvin, which is still going to be called "My devil wore Calvin" has shifted significantly since that time. She comes out far more sympathetic, despite some of her actions, as she was just caught in the rat race of being the only senior female executive. This not only helps my legal concerns but aligns us, and makes us simply fallible humans.
Sounds horrendous Anna. The last house we bought did come furnished...but it also came filthy with full garbage cans, leftovers in the fridge, even a naughty drawer....I am still bitter 5 years later. Lolol. Congrats on the new house!!!
"Instead I’m swearing vengeance, fantasizing about conversations with his boss and articles/reviews I could write."
You are too kind.
I've already dismembered this ogre and scattered his grimy ashes across the sea.
...not really. But it was a ton of fun in my head 😉
Great post. Wish I had read this years ago. I had to grind through months of false starts, confusing middles, failed endings—even doubting I could write at all. I wouldn’t have even attempted a story like this if someone hadn’t told me I sound too good and all my stories—that a story where I was the bad guy, or at least did bad things, is more vulnerable than some quirky lesson. In the end, like you, I learned a lot of about myself. Maybe I’ll write a similar retrospective one day. For now, this is the story I’m referring to. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7wLhNb1Bxuh7hYZGgghdCz?si=qtgcd5tdSSuMNy6ESwDUOQ