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Every one of us is creative. Whether you’re an engineer and you write really elegant code, or you’re a writer who researches and imagines and writes a book of fiction, or you’re a home cook who loves to use ingredients in interesting and inventive ways. Your craft shapes how you see, what you think about, and the ways you interact with the world. It molds your identity. A sign painter can’t help but scrutinize every billboard or the… Read Essay
At the beginning of this year, my two friends Bobby and David invited me on their annual, month-long trip to Colorado. We would drive across country for four days, leaving from Brooklyn and arriving… Read Essay
Photo by me “The true New Yorker,” said John Updike, “secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” Seeing the New York skyline from the hills of New… Read Essay
Do you tend to act out of fear or out of love? It’s a question you may never choose to ask yourself because the answer feels too elusive (or too frightening to face). You… Read Essay
I grew most of my writing career quietly, in the suburbs of New Jersey, comfortably behind a screen. It never occurred to me that I wasn’t part of a community or that I needed… Read Essay