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- The New NYC Question: Are You Waiting?
- To the Street Dancer in San Francisco
- College Didn’t Make Me a “Smart” Liberal
- For Writers, Having an Opinion Is Scary
- In Defense of the Icy Mom in the 1980 Film ‘Ordinary People’
- A Lifetime Watching the World Shrink
- How to Un-Divide America
- The Main Reason I Never Wanted Kids
- Fox News vs NPR
- I’m Bitter About Leaving Denmark
- Comparing Denmark to America Is Unfair
- The Unsexy Success of Hustle Culture
- What I Did & Didn’t Do in 2020
- Being a Writer Is an Act of Perpetual Self-Authorization
- Three Words My Therapist Taught Me
- Guns Are Just Too Fast
- Inside the Dhamma Sirī Pagoda in Kaufman, Texas
- 20 Random Facts, Collected in 2020
- You Mistook Me for a Mannequin in The Shops at Columbus Circle
- Verdigris in New York City
- Cannabis Trend: We Tried Delta-8-THC Gummies
- A Simple Writing Tip for the Digital Age
- What I Wish Christian Kids Knew
- 1990 TV Commercials: Why Double? Why Real?
- You Don’t Need Pants If You’re Not Going to Stand Up
- Who Do I Read?
- 5 Stories That Make Quarantine Seem Easy
- Who Will Give You Permission?
- This One Line on Social Media in ‘I May Destroy You’
- The MTV ‘Cribs’ Episode Millennials Forgot About
- My Partner Has a Special Covid-Friendly Skill
- The Rise of the Amateur
- Nice People Can Be So Unkind
- The Selfies No One Sees
- The Story of 42 Reusable Grocery Bags a la FreshDirect
- Read ‘The Novel Cure’ If You’re Tired of Self-Help
- It’s the Shadow On Every Kiss and Every Dollar — That It Might Not Be There Tomorrow
- Nothing Good on Netflix? Check Out the Criterion Channel
- What Is a Flower?
- President Obama Was My Santa Claus
- Will the Anti-Amazon ‘Boxed Out’ Campaign Work?
- When Women Went to Nevada for ‘the Reno Cure’
- Play-by-Play of Early Voting in NYC
- I’m (Finally) Lifting a Heavier Kettlebell
- Meet the Voices in My Head — The Destroyer and The Caretaker
- This Pandemic Is Changing New York City, and It’s Not All Bad
- Americans Suffer From Something Worse Than Impostor Syndrome
- A Woman’s “Fear Project” Failed — for a Good Reason
- This 2015 Book Changed How I Think About Creativity
- A (So-Called) Charming, Very Pretty Little Girl
- Water Is Never Boring
- The Year Is 2020; What Movie Is This?
- I Am White, Not “White”
- How to Care About the Animals You Can’t See
- Try a Murder Mystery to Process Your Grief
- Life Feels Important in Slow Motion
- Feline Beauty Needs No Explanation — Only Appreciation
- How to Read Books as a Lifestyle, Not a Life Goal
- Life Is Too Big for One Person
- Ovulation: the Yang to Your Period’s Yin
- Make Space for Anxiety
- In a Creative Society, Context Says a Lot
- How to Read Books as a Lifestyle, Not a Life Goal
- What You Call — a Sweetheart
- I Couldn’t Handle Startup Culture
- The Writing Lessons I’m Still Learning
- Why Do We Travel? We Have Different Answers
- The Selfish Reason to Wear Our Clothes Longer
- What Joni Mitchell Gave Me in ‘Blue’
- No One Buys Junk — We Only Buy Time
- New Yorkers Are Not Like You
- A Smart Woman Does Not Hide Her Intelligence
- Sometimes, Authenticity Is A Privilege
- Shame: All the Terrible Things We Never Did
- Wild Beer? Tell Me More.
- I Don’t Feel Safe, But It’s Nice Being Outside
- Creativity: What Van Gogh Knew
- My Partner and I Live Quiet Lives
- My First Fight with My Therapist
- Notice Nuance — A Lesson in Duality from The Smiths
- The Soft Man in My Dream
- Scheduling My Dream Life
- Are You a Soft Person or a Hard Person?
- Look Into My Twin’s Third Eye
- We Grab and Grab and Float Between Hands
- A Narcissist Learns How to Fold Laundry
- My Understanding of a Panic Attack
- Virginia Woolf Faced the Radical Possibility of Self-Transformation
- Dear Dad, You Were Always Leaving Us
- Hey Stranger, I Don’t Want to Take Your Picture
- A Complete Practical Guide to Better Eating with Mindful Frugality
- The Calming Effect of an Oceanic Horizon
- Does Intimacy Need Improv?
- The Art of Not Talking in Gestalt Therapy
- Yoga Taught Me to Listen to My Body
- Tiny Flowers in Disguise
- The Rideshare With a Happy Ending
- What I Like About My Period
- Liz Fraser Is a Dream Pop Enigma