James Dickey on December 13th, 2008

I got my start when I was only a few months old.
In some ways I was one of the most advantaged children ever to have lived. No, my parents weren’t wealthy, merely middle class and at times barely that. What I had was a mom who taught me. Before I was even one year old [...]

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I’ve been in graphic design for over 10 years (that’s entirely a different story about “how I got my start”). After 9-11 the advertising industry “tapered off” like many other industries. Our agency went through many rounds of layoffs and I was let go.
Four months later I landed a job with a private label apparel [...]

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James Dickey on November 28th, 2008

Editor’s note: This is my translation of the story as told to me by my maternal grandparents, who just celebrated their 68th anniversary. At 89 and 86, they live together in the two-story home on a lake that he built by hand when he was in his 60s. About once a month they drive the [...]

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