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My new favorite writing prompt is even more fun if you’re old as dirt

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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 […]

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creativity, nostalgia, TV, wayback, writing

It’s tragic that we don’t all write every day.

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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 […]

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creativity, nostalgia, overheard, writing creativity, daily writing, habits, writing

The 80s? Please. Here’s the real NYC horror show

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[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 […]

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New York City, nostalgia

The back-to-school feeling

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“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 […]

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middle school, nostalgia

Gifts for the dad who feels everything

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Today is my dad’s 78th birthday. Buying presents for him is always hard.  Not because he’s “the man who has everything,” but because he’s “the man who wants nothing normal.”

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family, hand-picked, memories, my dad, New York City, nostalgia birthdays, childhood, dad, family, gifts, memories, my dad, shopping

Kid, you’ve got it easy.

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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.” […]

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memories, nostalgia 1970s, 1980s, aging, gen-x, memories, nostalgia, old people, tech, technology

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