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"Fear, Happiness and the American Dream:
the Difficulty of a Simple Life"
 

Table of Contents

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Introducing Me

The American Dream:
Lower Middle Class
, Necessity, Better and Easier, the Dump, Five Planets, the Average American, the Dream, Circle Around It, Never Enough, Study, Driven, Consumer Culture, Affluenza, Some Tips, Diagnosis, After I Graduate, Unteaching the Dream, Voice of Dissent, American Nightmare, New American Dream

Growing Up:
Being Invisible
, Keeping Secrets, If I Could Be, Not My Voice, the Mystery of Books, First Innocent Days, Diary of Hope, Problem with a Small Town, Academic Hope , You Could Be, Best Friends Forever, Pretending to Be, After 20 Years

Parenting:
My Eventual Children
, Compromise, My Parents-Myself, Please Stop Fighting, Blaming Myself, Losing Myself, Waking from a Dream

Marriage:
I Moved to Colorado
, He is Happy Now, Something of My Own, Dog People, Trying to Settle, A Real House

Dog:
Great Dane
, Bad Dogs, Obsessive, Lifeline, Just Looking, Get in Line, Temperamental, Rottweiler Puppy, Make a Choice, Car Sick, Obi, Nausea, Working Dog, Good Dog, Oregon Coast, Sand Dollars, Hunting for Shells, Traveling Lonely Water

Panic:
Twain
, Attack, What it is, Fight or Flight, Remembering the First Time, Drowning, Just Once, The Deep End

Religion:
My Version
, What's in my Heart, God-figure, God in Nature, Greyrock

Change:
Resolution
, Becoming Stronger, Behind Everything, 9/12/2001, What's Wrong with Me, Comfort Food, Turning Pages, Raw Meat, the Problem

Simplicity:
Volunteer
, Time

Teaching:
First Day
, Interview, Questions without Answers, Being Myself, I Quit, Escape to Amsterdam

Therapy:
My First Appointment
, Assessment, Freedom, Fifth Chakra

Yoga:
Hope
, Power Yoga and 9/11, Sun Salutation

Thesis:
Writing One
, Not Enough Time, Searching for Center, Labyrinth

Writing:
Dialogue
, Rejection, Drifting

Mission:
Define a Philosophy
, Mission Statement, I Can't Be Trusted, My Hope, Politics, Discomfort

Dreams:
Suspect
, Summer of 2001, a Dream, Night Terrors, Overactive Imagination, Rock Bottom

Hiding:
Places to Hide
, the Front Porch, Somewhere Else, I Resist

Fear:
Fundamental
, Holding On

The Good Life:
the Risk
, Allegory of the Cave, Return to the Cave, Maslow's Hierarchy, Suggestion of Happiness, Getting Stuck, the Evils of Advertising, Materialism is Dangerous, the Ideal, Bodies, Aristotle, Eric on Epicurus, Clear and Simple

Patriot:
Proud?
, Unraveled, the Stone Age, Why?, Voice of Reason

Identity:
Large Family-Small Town
, On My Own, Happily Ever After, Remembering, Memory, Story, Audience of One

© Salahub 2003