I haven’t had to answer questions about my education for years at this point. In the past, I would say something like, “I was partly homeschooled and partly private schooled,” and sometimes the other person would have questions, but sometimes they’d be too confused to explore further. It’s a lot of details that don’t matter… Read More Emblem of Our House: Education
I look a lot like my father. I’ve got dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, and that one droopy eyelid that he has, too. It’s a very Jewish look, a standard throughout history. Out of the eight of us, there are only three with brown hair and brown eyes. My older sister Jessica, me,… Read More Emblem of Our House: I Call Him Schlep
He’s beautiful.
He’s got a brindle coat with orange eyes, looking like, as a friend of mine noticed, Halloween come to life.… Read More corso
And most of my 13 years writing have been about real-world stuff. I’ve dabbled in fiction since I was a child, but I’ve completed very little of it. I often, like many others, like the idea of writing more than I like to actually write, to really delve into the discipline required for the creative process.
Because along with the emotional cost of creating art, there are rough drafts and rewrites and alpha/beta reviews and edits. There’s getting rusty from not practicing or not being consistent.
And as I embraced this challenge, I found myself consumed with doubts about what I was doing and if I should even be doing it in the first place.… Read More true girl
I’d been working a temp assignment at an association since June as a communications director. It had felt, originally, like a dream job. I had a quarterly publication, social media, marketing, writing, editing, and design work to do. I was scheduled to head to a major city this Wednesday for a conference, and I was planning to see a couple of friends I haven’t seen in four years.
And then things started to shift at the association. I would spend hours on a design, only to be told that “Sorry, I just don’t like it,” without any additional direction. I was told fonts had to be the same size across a design, even for different sections. And I was told that designs I created, that were based on decisions made without my input, were simply not good enough. … Read More an association