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I Heart Bus
New Yorkers are convinced that everyone else spends too much on coffee, or Ubers, or in general is foolish with money. They are also convinced that…
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Peter Lawford's Beach House
...from 1998, but there's a NATO-expansion reference that seems timely!
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My Stage 4 Headshot
Making a publicist feel sad
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Unqualified, Inexperienced, and Yet Somehow an Expert
For some reason, they asked me to write an essay for The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the Worst Job You’ll Ever Love, despite being an unmarried and…
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This is Not the Strange Part
My review of Woody Allen's memoir, Apropos of Nothing. Spoiler Alert: Hashtag Team Woody
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How to Succeed In Business By Showing Up Every Day
Show up every day and find out....
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Be 50, Play 30
They say that moments before your death, your life will flash before your eyes. I’m here to tell you this is not strictly true.
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My Drug Memoir
Years ago, when I told my agent that I had written a book, she said to me: “Hey, if you wanted eight hundred dollars, I would’ve given you eight hundred…
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Easter 2024
Two reflections and two different kinds of Easter celebrations
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Weed City
There’s no smoking in the park, they shouted at me. One of them, for emphasis, inserted a colorful Anglo-Saxon modifier between the words “no” and…
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Prestige on a Car Window Sticker
For some parents, there is one remaining Hail Mary tactic to get their kids into Harvard or Yale. “We're moving to Kentucky," a friend of mine told me.
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The Tapper and the Laugh Checker
I have a friend who, when you’re at the movies and something funny happens on screen, he laughs and then he looks at you, to see if you’re laughing…
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