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I’m a writer. I like to be read, not heard. I’ve always felt most comfortable behind the scenes. Sort of the phantom in the opera house. The woman in the attic. The ghoul under the bridge. Pick your creepy 19th-century metaphor. I feel more at ease with a keyboard than a megaphone. But over the […]
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I have a love-loathe relationship with social media. I’ve met some incredibly cool people through it, but for every one of them, there’s a hundred randos and spammers. There’s an abundance of cute animal content, but for every snoring Frenchie, there’s an ill-founded political screed. Social media is a wonderful place to discover books and
I have a confession to make. Several times a week, people will recommend things to me: books, TV series, movies, podcasts, articles. These things always sound interesting, and I always say “Ooh, that sounds so good! I’ll check it out!” And I mean it, I really do. I want to check it out. But the
It’s okay to opt out Read More »
The Story of the Heck-Andrews House I’m in love with a building. It started when I was a child growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Every time we’d drive through downtown, there was a certain house I couldn’t get enough of, craning my neck to see it as long as possible as we drove by.
The Real-Life Haunted Mansion Read More »
I have a well-documented history of being severely behind the times. See Exhibit A, the leggings I wore in the 2000s (after they were popular in the 80s/early 90s and before their resurgence in the 2010s), or Exhibit B, my keyboard phone. In this spirit, I am bringing you my thoughts on the Spike Jonze
A Troglodyte Predicts: Thoughts on the future from someone stuck in the past Read More »
In the past few years, I’ve transitioned from jobs that kept me working in offices all day, and usually well into the night, to working full-time from home as a writer. Working from home can be wonderful (try sautéing a salmon for lunch in the breakroom at IBM), but it comes with all sorts of
Don’t Throw Out Your Pants: How to Work and Win from Home Read More »
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SARAH
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