Valentine’s Day tends to evoke roses, prix fixe menus in crowded restaurants and the quiet pressure to create romance. But that framing might be more limiting than we realize. If we’re honest, the things that make our hearts beat faster are rarely based in...
I have 23 voice memos on my phone right now. Some are untranscribed, unlistened-to, slowly accumulating like particles of digital dust. There’s one from last October where I’m apparently making a to-do list while walking to the cafe down my street. Another...
I’d like to tell you I wrote this piece in one glorious sitting, fingers tip-tapping away, ideas cascading onto the page like energetic espresso shots. In reality, I wrote a few sentences, checked the weather in New York (no, I am not in NYC), made chai tea and...
The other day, a client told me she was “waiting until after the holidays” to get back to her dissertation. I paused briefly. After the holidays? January, when everyone returns exhausted, broke and facing three months of dark and cold weather? That...
Let me tell you about a former client of mine—let’s call him Brad. Brad was kind, well-read and simply hell-bent on writing his dissertation on the use of punctuation in 14th-century French legal manuscripts. Yes, I’m sure someone out there finds that topic riveting....
