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The Hero’s Journey
Originally published in Grown & Flown, May 6th, 2020 I was 11 weeks pregnant with my first child on 9/11. Each day, I drove from Brooklyn to a middle school in Westchester where I taught seventh grade English, sometimes stopping to puke into a baggie along the...
Thirty-Minute Doomsday Meals
So, I’m down here in my bunker - I mean basement - looking at an overflowing and strange pantry of foodstuffs. Although I acquired most of it in the past few weeks, I have always been just a tad bit guilty of hoarding mayonnaise, I’m not gonna lie. On the shelves are...
How to Pick a College During the Pandemic: A Guide for High School Seniors and their Parents
It's 6:46 am. I’m supposed to be in Texas right now. With my seventeen-year-old son, Andrew. Visiting UT Austin, a college that he has been accepted into and that he kind of maybe sort of definitely wants to consider attending next fall. (Hook ‘em Horns!) In...
Why Doesn’t My Teenager Want to Drive?
My first car was a jaundice-yellow 1978 Buick LaSabre. It was a popular target for a pack of boys who drove around my hometown with paint guns. Because I rarely washed the thing, it accumulated pops of color — an orange spray on the left back door, blood red on the...
Reason for Return
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Ocean State of Mind, Volume 3: Beach Snobbery
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Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Guide to Volunteering (and Life)
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What happens when the classic Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest gets updated with a dash of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and a touch of Thelma and Louise? Lauren’s world gets a bit insane. Learn more …
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