Lipton, Shawn K.

I began writing and writing and writing. It was spring 2001 and I had just gotten laid off from my second dot-com in the last six months. I was living in Seattle, one of the hardest hit cities from the dot-com bust and I was most certainly a casualty. I moved to Seattle in December 1999 - drove cross-country from Connecticut without a job, broke down twice along the way, and was unprepared for mountain passes, but I made it. Within weeks, I was working and within months I was sent to China to do a continuing education class with Chinese lawyers. Met a girl, had cash in my pocket, and was lovin...