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Last week my eleven-year-old son’s yahoo
mail account was hacked. Ben’s on Facebook
and doesn’t e-mail very much, so fortunately his list of
contacts was small. Because he doesn’t
have any bank accounts or credit cards, I guess I’ve
procrastinated explaining
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My brilliant second career came courtesy of a long-dead grocer.
George Bowers was a New Yorker who died at the turn of last century. I knew nothing about George back in 2007. At the… Read full post »
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Before anyone occupied Wall Street, even before the crash of 2008, I found myself scratching my head and wondering, "What now?"
I had spent 15 years in advertising as a staff copywriter around New York City. In 1995, I went freelance to stay home and take care of my baby… Read full post »
My friends used to tell me I had an easy job...just show up at the event, write a story, go home. Fashion shows, school meetings, grand openings It worked out that way at first, then I got bored. I hooked onto freelancing and stringing for asso… Read full post »
I had a very satisfying career in fundraising. For years I planned events, cajoled volunteers, plucked the pockets of willing donors and raised much needed funds for AIDS research. I was respected. I liked those I worked with and I was proud of what we were all contributing. &n… Read full post »
The day I was laid off from a six-figure corporate job, my car was stolen from the Mobile station on the Merritt Parkway. I was driving back from my morning meeting with my boss in New York City, where he told me that my position was eliminated. I'd pulled off the… Read full post »
My brilliant second career came around just in the nick of time. I was accepted by NYC Teaching Fellows when my son was five. Not a moment too soon as I was kind of a career-changer without a career. I used my sort of zigzag path to nowhere to write an… Read full post »
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