Some time when you’re feeling important;
Some time when your ego’s in bloom;
Some time when you take it for granted,
You’re the best qualified in the room;
Some time when you think that your going,
would leave an unfillable hole;
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles your soul.
Take a bucket and fill it with water;
Put your hands […]
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Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs, but whose life, liberty, and property are […]
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“You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.”
-Chris Guillebeau
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But no, it’s just a photograph. I’m going to miss this view when I leave tomorrow night:
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Dad appeared to us as stubborn and erratic, but he was our dad and each of us was desperately trying to feel our way to his heart.
I’ve been meaning to blog about this memoir for a couple of months, but couldn’t quite express just how much it meant to me. The words still haven’t found […]
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I try to steer clear of this place, because I would much rather buy from individual artists directly…and it’s sort of embarrassing to be into Anthropologie at this point. But if you’re walking down Fifth Avenue on a September night and the one you’re with pushes you into the place, well, what are you going […]
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Alice Bachini-Smith:
Mistakes are things you have to deal with. They are an opportunity to learn, but you don’t learn from the actual mistakes: you learn by going over what happened with better ideas about it, and then you have to put those ideas into action. But the ideas need to come from somewhere, and the […]
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This is one of my most viewed photos on Flickr at over 9,000 views. It is the unspeakably lovely Garance Doré, taken during a surreal three days that we spent running around Paris in January 2008. She’s now a columnist for French Vogue, dates the smoking hot Sartorialist, has designed her own line of t-shirts […]
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Chris Yeh:
Now I don’t know about you, but I think $21 million is a lot of money. If Mint continued to execute well, got lucky, and ended up selling for $1 billion, Aaron would end up making around $160 million. That is a lot more than $21 million, but how many of us would turn […]
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Shana tova to my Jewish loved ones. In case you were wondering, Nutella is 100% kosher.
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I have a real aversion to the sort of person one would describe as “charming”. I’ve never met a charmer who had an honest bone in her body. That said, I found this quotation from Charles Saatchi worth passing on:
Trying to be charming is self-indulgent; allowing oneself to be charmed is simply good manners.
Nothing enrages […]
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The other night, I went to a “speed shrinking” party hosted by my friend and writing mentor Susan Shapiro, whose hilarious new book is called Speed Shrinking. Sue originated this format: It’s like speed dating, except you get three minutes with different therapists or psychiatrists instead of potential love interests. My own amazing psychotherapist was […]
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1) I could never live there. I avoid the 24/7 news thing like the plague, and everywhere you go in DC, TVs are showing cable news or the latest from CSPAN. I was so eager to get out of the cafe where I had breakfast, which was blaring non-stop political “news” in my ears, that […]
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This was my office for the day. It was a long one, starting with a 7AM train to DC and ending with a 10.30PM meeting back here in NYC. Boy do I have a lot to say after this trip…but I think I need some sleep before I can judge how much I should reveal. […]
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