copywriting. jumbo style.
OMG best thing ever A fellow copywriter/word nerd posted this Merriam Webster tool in a Facebook group, and all I can say is, what a perfect birthday gift. It lets you see what words were made official the year you were born. I thought that would make me feel old, but many of the words… keep reading…
Inside our living room credenza, I have a clear plastic tub stuffed with old sh*t. Every few months, I take it out and go through a weekend-long ritual. I shuffle through photographs from the 90s, laugh at the pencil-thin eyebrows, and scan some choice shots of me and my friends from when we still had baby fat on… keep reading…
[NOTE: This post is awesome (though needs updating) but if you’re looking for my instagram account, go here.] There’s a Halloween House of Horrors thing in New York called Nightmare: New York. This year, it’s focusing on the 80s, including a 1980s subway. And I’m like, oh please. Here’s what they say about it. What are… keep reading…
“Back to school” is in the air, and by in the air I mean on the air, in commercials for Target and Old Navy, because nothing about 80-degree air says “back to school.” It’s against nature that kids have to go back to school while corn and tomatoes are still in season. But the ads and… keep reading…
Buying presents for my dad is always hard. Not because he’s “the man who has everything,” but because he’s “the man who wants nothing normal.”
40 doesn’t feel old to me like I always thought it would. Except for a few things: This year’s bumper crop of gray hairs. The cracking joints – occurring during any and all movements, where they used to be limited to things like deep squats. I sound like bubble wrap. My husband calls me “Creaks.”… keep reading…
