The Cat and I write to you today from, as Dorothy Sayers puts it, “an undisclosed location” as our apartment floors are being replaced and we have temporarily moved out. She was particularly good on the way to the hotel, and has been suspiciously well-behaved, but I think it’s terror more than anything. If I …
I worked with a guy once who kept the cleanest desk. The surface contained: 1 computer 1 phone 1 pop-up post-it dispenser 1 pencil cup with 1 red pen, 1 blue pen, 1 black pen, 1 mechanical pencil (He also had a unique method of filing: first, he threw almost everything away – “If I …
One of the lessons I learned in a previous life where I was an actress of sorts, was how to enter the stage. The teacher told us, “Your character is always coming from somewhere and they bring a little of that somewhere with them.” Maybe they had to dodge raindrops on their way in from …
Did you notice people going crazy after 9/11 like they did after the Trump election? I remember my sister – who lived far from the target where I live – telling me that she was having panic attacks that were keeping her from sleeping. What if a terrorist decided to bomb her town? I didn’t …
Does your morning get off to a strong start? When I was younger, I was a night person – I loved working the 3:30-midnight shift (well, who wouldn’t, in Greenwich Village?) and I was lucky if I crawled out of bed before 11 am. I remember, as a rookie assistant manager assigned responsibility for writing …
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