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Laura Rebecca is a writer, editor, teacher, and tattooed yoga nerd from NY who currently lives on the West Coast. She obsessively makes art, drinks tea, dreams about Paris, and writes about education, fitness, technology, health, and culture.
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One of these creative bright spots was the release of Drew Pisarra's new volume of poetry, Periodic Boyfriends. Released in June 2023, Pisarra's latest sonnet cycle is inspired by the Periodic Table of Elements and the poet's one-night-stand catalog.
"Please, Mr. Postman, look and see; Is there a letter in your bag for me?" - Please Mr. Postman, The Marvelettes, 1961 Before there were DMs, IMs, texts, FaceTime, voicemail, phone calls, and even telegrams...there were letters. Letters are our window into history: we see them in museums, we read them and about them in history books, we watch them recreated in documentaries.
Iggy, Alanis, and Gaga have found a new “drug.”
Do you dream of a career in Theater? Is the stage your "happy place"? Has "Actor" become your dream job description? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, but don't know what steps to take next to make your dream a reality, then you've come to the right place.
The inevitability of growing old is that everything in your life eventually becomes the stuff of nostalgia. This is me holding the last print issue of the Village Voice. It was mailed to my home in Los Angeles by a writer friend who now lives in New York whom I met shortly after I first arrived in LA five years ago.
In my last blog post, I offered some suggestions on how to choose a research paper topic. In this post, we'll look at some of challenges you might face when starting a draft, as well as ways to overcome those challenges.
Instant coffee is having a "moment," as the kids say. We can all agree that there's a lot of uncertainty these days; as a result, we struggle to cling to those things we actually can be certain of. For me personally, I need to be able to depend on my morning coffee.
For 48 hours I stowed my fancy phablet in a drawer and popped my SIM card into the Punkt. MP 01
"It takes 66 days to develop a new habit." My friend Danice has been encouraging me to post more about technology, since according to her I'm "ahead
I can never seem to hang on to a decent pen. I lose them, I misplace them; I leave one unattended for two seconds and suddenly someone has commandeered it. A pen is not simply a pen. Use a crappy pen, and see what I mean.