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The Making Of A Podcast

In 2011 I went to Blogworld’s New Media Expo at the Javits Center. One of the breakout sessions I sat in on was about podcasting – how easy it was for anyone to start one and how this was the next great wave in media. I left that session so enthused! I had started my […]

Here Comes The Sun: My First Steps Towards Life Post COVID-19

I remember when leaving my apartment and walking the three blocks it takes to get to the PATH train was routine. It required no thought, only muscle memory to slide my metro card through the turnstile and descend the giant escalator to the platform where I would wait for the next train. But not today. […]

My First Father’s Day Without My Father

I knew something was different that first November when my birthday rolled around and there was no card in the mail addressed “To my one and only daughter, xoxo, Daddy.” Then there was Thanksgiving which marked my first attempt to cook a turkey, the one he was not there to carve. And that first Christmas when […]

In Order To Fix Our Problem, We Have to Acknowledge We Have One

There’s been a problem with my mother’s freezer for awhile. She knew it. I knew it. My brother knew it. Not everything was freezing equally and ice kept accumulating on the thermostat in the back. None of us wanted to deal with it. Not even my mother who in her younger days would have called […]

When Trying To Stay Optimistic Is Like Playing A Game of Whack-a-Mole

Every day when I call my mother, not more than a few minutes into the conversation she laments about what is going on in this country. She grew up during the Great Depression, lost her mother at the start of WWll, and worked at the Fairchild Plant in NY helping the war effort. After she […]

If It’s Still March How Can The Semester Be Over Already?

Every day I wake up and I think it’s still March. I look at my calendar and I’m reminded that is not the case, but still somewhere deep inside of me it feels like March. It’s easy to get confused. The days have all run into each other since we all started sheltering in place. […]