They’re playing baseball in McCarren park and I am immediately hit with the dusty smell of my childhood: dirty gloves, pebbles in bat bags, the…
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Every time I turn my head, it seems like it’s Fashion Week somewhere. Just this past weekend when I was in Austin for a wedding,…
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Have you heard of the email marketing service MailChimp? If you haven’t, and you subscribe to any company mailing lists, I can pretty much guarantee…
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Q: My boyfriend and I have been together for a few months, and have been spending more time together recently in one another’s apartments. His…
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I DON’T THINK that anyone would disagree with the statement that things are rough in the work environment these days. For a number of reasons…
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The porn industry is estimated to be worth about a billion dollars. That’s a hefty chunk of change, and rightly so: porn is ubiquitous nowadays.…
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Let’s add a literary twist to an old saying: a book a day keeps the frown away. According to a study commissioned by the U.K.’s…
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I know, this isn’t your favorite dinner table topic and you probably wouldn’t bring it up on a first date or while meeting with prospective in-laws for the first time, but…
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The white girl with the blonde cornrows and the sleeves of tattoos is dancing in the corner, her feet prancing from right to left, blankly…
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She’d often shout at the TV. But she never watched sports. And the only bets she placed were on the inevitable errors of others. Her…
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Shortly after I moved into my first “big girl” apartment in Boston, I caught the HGTV bug. Seven years later, I’m looking for my first…
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At the risk of stating the obvious, writing can be a very difficult thing to do, whether you write for personal fulfillment or for an…
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