At the beginning of 2015, I didn’t have any vacations booked beyond a week in Paris with my mom. I had just started a new job a few months prior, and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to travel much this year. I confided my concern to my friend...
When I moved to New York City three years ago, I was the first non-family employee at ONA—and Jillian was the second. I managed marketing, she managed sales—and we quickly discovered a shared love of pugs, lattes and good books to read on the subway....
"To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."
When I reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn last year—one of my favorite books, and one that I could read...
Moving in New York City is rarely a pleasant experience. Sure, the outcome is (usually and hopefully) good: a bigger and/or newer and/or better apartment. But the process itself is generally accepted to be incredibly expensive and high-stress—often...
"On social media, we all want to be seen as ducks, a term researchers at Stanford University came up with to convey how, like the animal, young women want to be seen as gliding serenely along, but in fact under the surface are paddling ferociously."...