Fresh out of college with a pocket full of optimism, Alicia McGarry set out to change the world by way of journalism -- she would write! Cover politics! Issues of socioeconomic importance! She would write ... features? Ad copy? Disenchanted, Alicia soon found herself skirting the slippery slope's edge of a cubicled existence, in which she would likely have renounced her calling, half-heartedly clambering up the corporate ladder while subsisting solely on coffee, Chipotle and MySpace. Then, along came Kai... One gaze into his eyes and she resigned from that rat race, opting instead for the rugrat chase with a side of freelance. Amidst the overwhelming joy, chaos, triumph and utter absurdity of year one as a work-at-home mom, her experiences have brought about a clarity of intention in how her mission to make her mark might be truly made manifest: To change the world, she must begin in the bungalow, because great things come from small packages.
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Before I delve into the deep-ended, dark-sided and mostly ... left field of things, I thought it might help if I offered up some semblance of a justification for how I came to be who I am, holding tight to these principles, always striving to never let...
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