I’m up on Cover Our Tracks with our last post of 2017. I got to interview the amazing Lou Beach, the collagist responsible for some of my favorite album covers, including the American debut from Yellow Magic Orchestra. Titling my pieces isn’t always my strong point, but this time the title jumped out at me. …
While updating my clips I found this old but still awesome guide to design neighborhoods around the world that I contributed to for Metropolis Magazine. Enjoy!
The Little Blue Marble has its first feature-length reported piece and it was written by me! You can read it here. This was an interesting piece to do and it made me think a lot about political polarization — oddly enough — as well as bias in the media. In this age of Twitter and …
If you’d like to read my essay about the strange wonderland I entered when I accidentally searched Greenwich real estate listings with the price-range parameters turned off, please click here to go to Common Edge Collaborative!
I need new business cards for like a year now, and I am definitely going to get on top of that today, because I am SUPER organized and have my priorities straight ALWAYS. But meanwhile a friend told me about Build A Pick, where you can upload your own design and text and get it …
Go here to find my latest contribution to the fabulous album cover website Cover Our Tracks (founded by my BFF, the noted and underrated cultural critic Loring Kemp). At Loring’s behest I interviewed James Marsh, who is a wonderfully thoughtful artist and an inspired and inspiring storyteller. It was one of those interviews where the …
Go here to check out my interview with legendary illustrator Bob Pepper, up today on a great new blog courtesy of Loring Kemp. Cover Our Tracks is about album covers, mostly — but nothing about album covers is only about album covers… know what I mean?
The lovely editors at O, the Oprah Magazine, have included my essay, “Personal Growth,” in the adorable little volume that is O’s Little Book of Happiness. You know who else has essays in this book? Brené Brown. Jane Smiley. Elizabeth Gilbert. Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Roxane Gay. No big deal!! Also, in the correspondence surrounding this …
I love writing for O! I’m thrilled to report that I have a very tiny piece in the October issue. The theme of the issue is “How to stop worrying and start living.” So, I wrote about how I survived a classic “stranger in a dark alley” attempted rape back in 2009. How on Earth …
For the love of all that is holy, please buy the June issue of O, the Oprah Magazine! Don’t make me tell you twice. In it you will find TWO little articles by ME! One is about our beloved lemon tree (Kay: “Our lemon tree is going to be famous?”), and the other is about …