The Toybox
For my birthday this year, my mom asked what she needed to get me. I told her I wanted copies of a couple of pages from my dad's green journal. I did not even know he had a green journal he had been writing in for over 30 years until my oldest daughter mentioned it to me after a remarkable occurrence. Lauren had been working as a massage therapist at "Casinosage" in Las Vegas, Nevada. She had been a little discouraged as it was one of those commission based jobs where sometimes folks don't tip and essentially you are working for free. Her shift had been fraught with drunk slot players who would rather put coins in the machine than tips in her palm so she had been close to tears. One woman asked for a massage while she played the slots and said to Lauren, "I have never had a massage before and it's my first time in Las Vegas." She then said as she was getting the chair massage, "Who is Dani and why is the number 15 important to her?" Lauren...