I’ve spent a large part of the past month applying to jobs. Since many of these are writing jobs, I’ve toiled long and hard over the perfect cover letter, figuring that if the sole quality I’m selling is my supposed mastery of the written word, I better well as heck communicate something Pulitzer Prize-worthy in…
It started with a simple suggestion. When I was teaching in Italy two summers ago, one of my host Dads suggested that I check into a nunnery. Something told me this wasn’t a compliment. I didn’t think spending all day with 8-year old Italian children had made me that wild, but who knows. Then he clarified, “I recommend…
“You have to get offline. I’ll say it again. You HAVE GOT TO GET OFFLINE. YOU HAVE TO GET F***ING OFF F***ING LINE.” – advice from legendary E. Jean Carroll, of Ask E. Jean, America’s longest currently running advice column Better advice could not be more emphatically expressed. I took it to heart for 4…
Last Saturday, I was feeling a little down and out so I went for a walk through the park. Consumer park, I should say. My jaunt took me to the epicurean part of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, better known as Trader Joe’s, where bohemians bustle in and out. Embraced by a horde of herbivores and gourmands…
After Wednesday, I will be off the Facebook hook for good. This is landmark. If this was a status, it would say: END OF AN ERA. After all, this will affect 1,823 “friends” I’ve amassed since senior year of high school! How it will actually play out: A small percentage of friends will notice a…
There’s a first for everything. I had some red wine on the plane and am now slightly tipsy/disgusted – $7 for a little bottle of cheap Cabernet?! Thank goodness I had a voucher. Never again. I’m en route to San Francisco for a few meetings, including some with prospective employers. I’m anxiously awaiting the sight…
Unlike those who remember the date, time, and place they became a Christian, I don’t. My spiritual journey has been gradual – rocky at times, beautifully glorious in its highs, and irreverently nonchalant in between. I am a believer. However, there are obstacles in my faith. Most are between me and God, but one of…
MOWA is hosting another Instagram photo contest this week. I don’t know about you but I hella want a shot at these scarves and bangles! Snap as many pictures as you want showing how you rock the colors of the fall season Upload it to Instagram and use the hashtag #MOWAcolors and tag @hellomowa Invite your…
I look at my calendar for this weekend and my head swarms. There are visitors galore – all cool people who I want to see – and I plan to see as many of them as possible. However, I can’t help but get slightly anxious, knowing that running from one social engagement to the next…
Shout-out to Obama, our president for the next 4 years. Now on with my selfish lamenting… Yesterday, I was telling a friend about the number of projects I’m involved with. “I can’t handle them all! I feel like I’m not being the best version of myself in anything.” She responded, “When you attempt too many…
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