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2 weeks agoStat(s) Of The Week: 1040 Blues - Above the Law
The annual cost burden of U.S. individual income tax returns exceeds $91 billion, primarily due to time spent on tax compliance.
The friends who stick around are the ones who text back when you're having a mundane Tuesday crisis about whether to switch internet providers. They're interested in your boring work drama. They remember to ask how your dentist appointment went. I have this group chat called "The Debrief" with four friends from different parts of my life. We don't just share the highlight reel stuff.
In class, I shared a set of drafts of a poem that appeared in my most recent collection. One by one, I projected versions of the poem onto a screen. I drew attention to the red ink slashing through unwanted words. I pointed out how I added, struck, added, struck and then re-added a comma. I boasted about my careful use of my favorite punctuation mark-the delightfully overlong em dash.