career

Book Review of Fierce with Age: Chasing God and Squirrels in Brooklyn

05.13.2013

So now what, at this age? Who am I without the accouterments of my earlier life? My job, my youth, my expertise in a particular field? If I’m not running the race, do I even have value?

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Aging Out and Owning Up

12.09.2012

So once again I’m asking myself: what do I want to be when I grow up? Or, more correctly, as I grow old?

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Bits & Pieces: Of My Life

10.03.2012

Fourteen agents showed the house in four days. Who says the housing market is still dead??!!

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Boomer Career Reinvention: It Ain’t for Sissies

09.17.2012

I was totally unprepared for the emotional impact of laying myself bare, after extricating myself from the “Lorie the Lawyer” mantle.

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Walking Manhattan: Social Media Saavy

08.27.2012

Even though my class at Parsons was cancelled, I have accomplished exactly what I came to New York to do.

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The Reality of 50: Wake Up and Smell the Paints

08.06.2012

Can I really reconcile myself to doing something I love that I’ll never be great at? Is it better to have painted and sucked or never to have painted at all?

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Anna Quindlen and Me

05.23.2012

She wasn’t the prettiest, the thinnest, the most popular girl but she was really smart and seriously focused and as ambitious as any of the guys. These were the heady days of feminism after all. Anna was a sister.

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Reinventing The Wheel

04.23.2012

This message, my subconscious, spoke to me so clearly I could hardly get through the words without crying. ‘Go. Get off this hamster wheel. Go get some fresh air, a new outlook on life. Go get some exercise, refresh your career, re-charge your spirit. Take time to re-focus. You need some fresh air and some clean water.’

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The Louise Log: A Filmmaker’s Career is Reborn on the Internet

07.28.2011

She wrote of her move from film to video in an essay called “How the Internet Revamped My Filmmaking Career” for Internet Evolution.

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Babbling About Writing, Foucault, the Superbowl, but not the kitchen sink

02.08.2011

Of course, my anti-California slick style is that hard-core, jargon-laden, obscure, obfuscating academic writing.

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