Category: glamorous
My Glamorous Life
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Education is its own privilege
When I think back to my college friends and me, what a beautiful bubble we lived in! Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t a fancy college—it was state school, and we were all from out…
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Walking Through Fear
The mail carrier used to think I was away from home, traveling. Nope, just scared to open the mailbox.
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Fear of getting noticed
Back when I was in advertising, one of my team’s clients was a well-known Irish Airline. They could only afford an 1/8th-page ad in the travel section of the paper. But my partners and I…
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My First Job
I was a teenage telemarketer. Reading from a script, I attempted to raise money for St. Jude’s Hospital for Leukemia-Stricken Children. I was fired after three days for departing from the script. We were supposed…
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My Night With Essl
Herewith, a scene from last night’s interview with legendary web & book designer (and Dean of The Cooper Union School of Art) Mike Essl, who shared his portfolio, career highlights, early web design history, and…
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A little vitreous humor
Vitreous humor lines the backs of our eyeballs. We are born with a full supply of the stuff, but as we age, it begins to dry out or evaporate or some damn thing—the ophthalmologist shining…
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The ship and the city
I DREAMED I’d boarded a ship that was slowly making its way to an exotic vacation locale, somewhere on the other side of the world. I’d bought a giant new steamer trunk for the voyage.…
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A thousand tiny pieces
Snow White pushed a stack of ceramic espresso dishes off of the kitchen counter this morning, to see how many of them would smash into a thousand tiny pieces. The answer was most of them.
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What’s your favorite season?
As a child, I loved summer—no school! I could stay indoors all day and read! But summer camp, which I dreaded, ended my romance with that season. Even as an adult, no longer forced “for…
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My Life is a New Yorker Cartoon
“Why are you uncomfortable having a nonbinary cat?” …my teenage daughter demanded as we sat together on the couch.
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In which I am vaccinated
Got vaccinated against COVID-19 today. Stood in line for just over 90 minutes outside a Lower East Side high school that was being used as an immunization pod. There was an old couple in front…
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My Glamorous Life: Sunday Repairs
For about a week, now, my bedroom floor has been torn up due to under-floor flooding created by a malfunctioning window air conditioning unit. The A/C unit began leaking during the summer months when I…
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Fear and loathing on 9/11
A cheesily animated digital American flag was flying on the Jumbotron overlooking the Bellagio fountains.
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Covid-19 Progress Report
I’m what they call a long-hauler.
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Never give up
The really good designers stand up to the misfortune of a killed idea.