TPA-JFK-CDG-DXB“We ask all passengers to please remain seated and keep your seatbelts fastened. Crew remain seated ( Read more... )

We had $250,000. We earned it with tears, we earned it with arrogance. Kevin the Shark-Tank-Shark/Dragon’s-Den-Dragon yelling in person is 100% less funny, especially when it’s at you. Did you know the judges’ platform is raised, that supplicants are lit from below the platform, that our two minutes and thirty seconds was edited from almost an hour ( Read more... )

As a freelance editor, I frequently hear from authors who are worried that if they join a writing group, show their manuscript to an editor, or submit it to an agent, their words will be stolen ( Read more... )

“Either Filipinos have the greatest service culture in the world, or they’re secretly plotting to take over,” I tell my mom on our weekly call. “Every retail worker here is Pinoy, they greet me with smiles, they remember me-I mean, the Dubai Mall gets twenty thousand patrons on a busy day, Dean & DeLuca probably sees three thousand upscale-grocery ( Read more... )

“Are you an almond milk person or soy ( Read more... )

What nobody tells you as an artist is that every project starts at the beginning. Not just the blank page, the empty stage, but that you have to re-establish your credentials and your quality every time. You can coast on reputation a little, but it doesn’t last long if you don’t deliver ( Read more... )

Hidden they say. They’re hidden.Glimpses from the air of fencing around boxes ( Read more... )

We walk into the gym and scan for mat space, Kim’s aerial hoop over her shoulder, my aerial silk in my arms.

Aerialists hang from the peg wall, doing pike-ups and hoping the Cirque coaches will notice them. Big-bodied catchers wear tank tops and striped toe-socks. Short, muscled flyers with linebacker shoulders and gnarled ankles look at us, ( Read more... )

I wake up in the night and I don't know where the bathroom is. There's a white price and a girl price and an it's-not-coal-mining price. If you do not see the sticker, that doesn't make it free. (If you didn't pay, you are probably the product). That is why law school costs so much, because living the life of 2.5 kids in your split-level and 2.5 ( Read more... )

Words on the page ( Read more... )