Today I am baking the bread. The recipe I got from my mother who got from what her sister had pieced together from their mother’s recipe. The recipe had never been written down but brought with my grandmother when she came to this country from Greece over a century ago. And I imagine this same […]
Missing the Bus
Sunday I went to go and catch the cross town bus. A half block away I spotted the M66. It was at the stop, doors shut waiting at a red light. I started to pick up speed, considered darting in front of the uptown traffic to make a run for it, but within the seconds […]
Plan A or Plan B
A lot of people will tell you to have a Plan B. As soon as something isn’t working out, the advice is to consider Plan B. A few years ago I would have told you the same thing. In fact I still will. Have a Plan B. Know what you would do if money was […]
Embrace The Nausea
I gave one of my clients a homework assignment yesterday. I watched the somewhat pained look on her face as she scribbled it into her laptop and I smiled. I knew I had done my job. I asked her if it had made her nauseous. Her answer was yes. I told her that was a […]
Holiday Gift Guide
If you’re like me you like receiving gifts. And if you’re really like me, you also like giving them. Especially when you come upon something a little different, clever, or creative. Something that really suits that person or that they would not necessarily think to get themselves. Something that does not say mass produced. Here […]
The Myth of the Handcuffs: A Story
“What else am I going to do?” There was a time you never asked that question. But that was before, when things were different. It was another century when you thought they cared about you and about what you might contribute to the organization. When you believed. Before it became clear that it was only […]
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