Nathan Timmel

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A Night Alone

A Night Alone

September 16, 2013, was a milestone for my daughter. That morning was the first time she ever woke up with neither her mother nor her father in the house she knew as home. I had been in Chattanooga the night before and was doing my best to return to her side. Driving...

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Reflections on Year One

Reflections on Year One

There is a scene in A Fish Called Wanda where John Cleese is wooing Jamie Lee Curtis. He comically dances around the first floor of a flat in London, doing a striptease and speaking Russian—foreign languages are a fetish for the Jamie Lee Curtis character—as she...

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A Thespian, Am I

A Thespian, Am I

I’m not a good actor.  Thing is, I don’t care.  I don’t care that I’m bad, and that puts me at least on par with Kristen Stewart, or Shia La Booooof. Just without the success and millions of dollars and fame. Anyway. What’s funny/sad, is that even though I’m bad, I’m...

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A Chance Encounter

A Chance Encounter

Invisible bonds exist between certain people, such as that between members in the military or those that tie a family together, and one such connection is present between mothers.

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Inside the Arrogant Mind

Inside the Arrogant Mind

I’ve never understood the type of person that thinks it’s OK to be rude in public. To be arrogant, and put the focus on you when in a crowd.

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Why We Fail

Why We Fail

In April, 2013, the department store chain JC Penney fired its CEO, former Apple executive Ron Johnson. It’s a move that makes sense, because if there’s one thing Apple is known for, it’s failure, right?

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The Best Worst Parent

The Best Worst Parent

There are things you know you shouldn’t do, yet you do them anyway. Case in point: upon getting my infant daughter Hillary out of her crib recently, I realized I had to do some #1 business in the bathroom.

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A Little Something About Alec Baldwin

A Little Something About Alec Baldwin

When I lived in Los Angeles, I worked in the arena of property representation for film projects. The company that employed me acted as a liaison between working properties—office buildings, abandoned warehouses/hospitals, private parks, etc.—and TV/film productions...

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A Self-Inflicted Wound

I recently had the dubious honor to work in a state where legislators and voters both still think it’s 1950. Smoking is apparently “awesome,” and of course it’s allowed indoors…

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