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What It’s Really Like to Be a Public Defender

Most people don’t think about public defenders at all. When they do, it’s usually through a cartoon—either the incompetent burnout who doesn’t care, or the slick TV lawyer who wins on a dramatic speech in front of a jury. Neither of those people exist.

What exists instead is a job where you wake up every morning thinking, “Did I set that hearing for today or next week?” and fall asleep thinking about the one innocent client who didn’t make it out clean.

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I’ve Lived in Skid Row for Seven Years. Here’s the Reality.

I’ve lived in downtown Los Angeles, inside the officially designated Skid Row district, for almost seven years now. That’s long enough to see the area before COVID, during it, and after—long enough to watch the cycles repeat and the public narrative harden into something flatter and less accurate than reality.

Most people think they understand Skid Row. I did too, before I moved here. What they usually mean is that they’ve seen it online—videos, photos, TikToks framed as proof that Los Angeles has failed. Skid Row has become shorthand for political arguments, a visual talking point that gets passed around without much context. But Skid Row didn’t appear out of nowhere. It’s more than a hundred years old. Many cities have their own version of it. LA’s just happens to be the one with the most cameras pointed at it right now.

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What It’s Like to Be Raised in a Family of 22 Siblings

I’m the fourteenth of twenty-two children. All biological. Fourteen boys, eight girls. When I say that out loud, I can feel people doing the math in their heads—trying to picture it, trying to understand how something like that even functions. Most people don’t grow up in a family; they grow up in a household. I grew up in something closer to a small, loud, moving ecosystem.

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Confessions Of A Father With A Psychopathic Son

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My son was very troubled. VERY troubled. If you have seen the movie “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, it will really help to understand what I’m talking about, because I swear to God when I watched that film I thought I was watching a documentary of my life, I felt like the writer must have had cameras hidden in my damn house, that’s how accurate it was. The only difference is that in the movie, the boy appears normal to his father and only reveals his true nature to his mother, with my son he didn’t have that mask. His insane behavior was the same with everyone.

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Confession of a Former Nun

I walked into the convent thinking I was walking into a life that would sand down everything noisy in me until only God was left.

I was twenty when the idea stopped being a pious daydream and started feeling like gravity. I didn’t have some dramatic “light-through-the-clouds” moment. It was quieter than that—an increasing certainty that my life wasn’t meant to be arranged around romance, plans, or the normal landmarks other people measured adulthood by. I’d barely dated. I was insecure in that specific way young women can be insecure—like you’re always one wrong facial expression away from being judged and discarded. Religious life felt like an answer to that fear. Not an escape hatch from the world, exactly, but a doorway into a different kind of world where the rules were clear: pray, serve, obey, belong.

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Lessons From a Nanny For the One Percent

I have been a nanny for the ultra rich for almost a decade now. Ultra rich is relative, because even within wealth there are levels and then there are levels. My families are not the nine hundred million Silicon Valley titans with nannies making two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year. I am the nanny for the middle class rich, the families with twenty to forty million dollars who outsource large parts of their lives but still remember what it was like to grow up normal.

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The Black Swan Estate: Where the 1% Will Wait Out the World

My path to becoming a builder of billionaire sanctuaries was not a straight line drawn through civil engineering or architecture, but rather a pivot from the world of law and high-stakes logistics. For over a decade, I advised governments and medical technology companies on disaster preparedness and supply chain structuring, spending years analyzing the fragility of “just-in-time” global delivery systems. When the pandemic hit in 2020, the leap from securing corporate supply chains to securing the lives of the ultra-wealthy was shorter than one might expect.

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Steroids Made Me Feel Unstoppable… Until They Didn’t

I didn’t touch steroids until I had been lifting seriously for years. I wasn’t some 19-year-old chasing biceps and bench numbers. I was in my mid-20s, plateaued, frustrated, and insecure that the guys around me kept passing me by. The dudes I had been stronger than in the beginning were suddenly outlifting me, outgrowing me, and outshining me.

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