I was a teenage telemarketer. Reading from a script, I attempted to raise money for St. Jude’s Hospital for Leukemia-Stricken Children. I was fired after three days for departing from the script. We were supposed to hard-sell, no matter what the person on the other end of the line said. But when the people I […]
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Back when I was in advertising, one of my team’s clients was a well-known Irish Airline. They could only afford an 1/8th-page ad in the travel section of the paper. But my partners and I didn’t think creativity was dependent on budget. We were determined to deliver great ads for them—ads that would make a […]
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The mail carrier used to think I was away from home, traveling. Nope, just scared to open the mailbox.
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When I think back to my college friends and me, what a beautiful bubble we lived in! Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t a fancy college—it was state school, and we were all from out of state. And we certainly weren’t rich kids: my friend J came from a Lower East Side single parent family, […]
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You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.
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All my life I’ve known I was “creative” and “different.” Only recently have I realized that I’m both neurodivergent and bisexual. In my youth, as I struggled with drugs, alcoholism, depression, and underemployment, it never crossed my mind that I was neurodivergent—not that the term existed then. Even after I was diagnosed with an Anxiety […]
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One of these worlds is gone, and to the other, we will never return.
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First thing after her breakfast, Snow White climbed into a small, half-filled paper and cardboard recycling box.
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