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The Promotion
By Joy Lynn Clark 09/09/2024 When I first moved to the north side I went through a few jobs. I had positions in retail, temporary, contract, on campus, and then finally the big box retailer that I ended up loving. I went to college and lived in the city with grandma and grandpa just after I did the infamous talk show with my best friend. I started out as a part-time sales associate in the music department. Like I mentioned in the past, I had an awesome life. I went to school, the store, performed on thursdays, and then I recorded music on Sundays. Even though I worked in the…
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Alone (Missed You For So Long, Love You Since The Dawn)- Making Time For You 11/16/2027 update
11/13/24 See end for final lyrics 2/20/2024 By Joy Lynn Clark After all of these years, I finally found myself in a state of peace. I looked around my place and I started “fall cleaning”. I got rid of a lot of non-essential items around my apartment. Everything looks nice and neat. I take a deep breath and pour a glass of champagne left over from the crate that I ordered last holiday. Next, I pour the bubbly into one of the crystal glasses that I had inherited from my stepmother’s passing. Well, I really am alone now. I need to make some plans. Since it was just a few…
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I only have eyes for . . . B2K
By Joy Lynn Clark January 8, 2022 Before my Bestie and I decided to look for a place, we went to a free performance that was advertised on the radio. There was a group performing there that I just had to see – B2K. I remember it like yesterday, B and I entered the room and my eyes quickly diverted to the stage where the opening act was performing and dancing. Someone grabs B and asks, “do you vote, are you 18?”. In my mind, “barely but yes”. “Let me introduce you to this old guy politician who is distracting you from the concert.“ I think next. I take the…
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The US EEOC Pledge
By Joy Lynn Clark 3/11/2021 I was not the person who came up with the EEOC pledge nor do I have any employees. However, it’s pretty good and it goes along with my personal views also. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. Overview | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission I am in agreement with all of this so here’s my pledge:…
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A Response to Virginia Woolf’s, “A Room of One’s Own”
By Joy Lynn Clark (This response to the reading was part of an assignment in Latin American women writers class taught by Professor Christian Roa at The University of Illinois at Chicago) Virginia Woolf is a poet and author. Woolf is a predecessor of Jane Austen and was one of the first women to have tenure at a University. Unfortunately, she was not allowed to enter the library or sit on the grass. “A Room of One’s Own”, was about what she has to live with as the only educated woman on campus and what she wants to achieve as a writer. Because this paper was meant to be a…
