Work

I’ve never mentioned this, but for the past two years I’ve participated in a post-grad leadership-ish program for people who attended Jesuit universities. 12+ of us met once a month to discuss, study, and hear about different schools of thought around things like how to marry social and financial obligation, how to navigate a work environment that doesn’t support growth or individuality, or – most …

You want to really upset someone, forget to tell them that you moved out of the city and back in with your parents a 2-hour bus ride away… It’s not that I forgot to inform certain people, it’s more that I couldn’t get the full, well-rehearsed, why-I’m-doing-this speech into a text message or voicemail and e-mail seemed too I-think-this/I-am-important-enough-to-send-an-email. So in the absence of a …

Here’s the latest in my contributions to Lemondrop (the all-things site for women’s lifestyles and issues): My Life on the Suze Orman Diet or, how a cash-only lifestyle can save you hundreds, in weeks. Remember cash? That green, waxy paper stuff that features one of several dead presidents or Ben Franklin? Well, for upwards of four years, I didn’t. Never carried it. Never used it. …

Thursday night April 22nd I moved from my Greenwich Village apartment to my parents suburban New Jersey home (why take the day off when your Dad is the equivalent of a professional mover and your life’s contents fit inside a Toyota Sienna minivan?)Friday, April 23rd I moved seven of twelve bags and boxes from the garage to the bedroom I’ll now inhabit and then stared …

I’m moving out of Manhattan this week. On Thursday night my dad will (attempt to) park the minivan and help me cart four years down the four flights of my Greenwich Village apartment building. Then I’ll make him knock me unconscious before we drive away from my beloved neighborhood en route to the place I’ll be calling home for the Summer – home. Specifically, suburban …

A female friend and I were having dinner at an Italian restaurant on St. Patrick’s Day because it seemed like too much of a challenge to catch up with all the wasted kelly green polo shirts stumbling around the village. We spent the first fifteen minutes like we typically do “catching up” about other people, the next fifteen catching up about work stuff (She is …

My friend Erica is living her dream. She is the president, CEO, founder, head publicist, and sometimes-secretary of Erica Taylor PR, a fashion and lifestyle publicity firm that she started close to a year ago. To date she has over a dozen clients from LA to New York, three weeks ago she hired her first, full-time assistant, and just last week they moved into their …