Hello, My Name Is...

Life is strange, isn't it? One day you are minding your own business, getting over being laid off and trying to find enough work to stay alive, and the next you are reading a tiny bit of your story for a commentary on NPR's Morning Edition.

If you've come here directly from NPR, or from hearing the commentary, welcome. You may be looking for the full story of my lay-off; you'll find it here, here, and here. After you read it, I hope you'll take a look through the Hidden City archives, or the suggested reading under the Writing and Dreams sidebar links.

If you like what you see, I'd love to hear from you. Leave me a note in the comments, or drop me a line via e-mail (hiddencity at Gmail). If you don't like it, well, it's a big Internet. I'm sure you'll find something more to your taste.

Either way, thanks for stopping by.

4 Comments:

Blogger Mustang Bobby

I heard it driving in, MKH. I've known you -- or at least your writing -- for more than six years, and it's way past time that you were recognized. I am in the presence of greatness.

2/9/10 6:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous

Also heard you on NPR this morning and I loved it! Reminded me of a book I just read called Then We Came to the End: A Novel. There's a great scene about office chair looting and the discovery that the office manager has a log of chair serial numbers, which makes everyone paranoid resulting in more chair swapping so that they may end up with their originally assigned chair.

Anyway, the NPR story brought me to your blog (which I had heard mentioned before) so now I'm definitely going to poke around your archives.

Thanks for the great story this morning!

2/9/10 8:50 AM  
Blogger Maria de los Angeles

It's a sad story but one beautifully as only you can write. It was great to hear your narrating voice, too.

2/9/10 1:02 PM  
Blogger popodita

I also heard your story on NPR this morning. Your voice sounds so... comfortable. Anyways, I really enjoyed your story, especially when your said: "Ten years of personality, stripped away for a new occupant." Although somehow that was sad, yet also sounded a sigh of relief.

Thanks for the story, and I hope to to hear your story more often in NPR, have fun with your new ID.

2/10/10 12:49 AM  

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