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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