The Latest
My most recent(ly posted) stories.
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Green
In the great Green Rush, I've been writing about everything from air-cleaning plants to a mini-guide on how to recycle everything.
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Health and Yoga
As a long-time health-freak and yogi, I'm interested in natural wellness. This is a melange of pieces--from a story for Natural Health using music to soothe the brain to an article for Breathe about Kripalu yoga, and a semi-long rant for Yoga Journal about books by celebrity yogis.
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Interviews
Lately I've been doing quite a few Q&A-style interviews--the lazy (or just really freaking busy) reporter's profile. It's been great getting to talk to everyone from Lou Reed to Alice Walker to Ellen Burstyn about their spiritual life.
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Essays
Essays are pretty much my favorite thing to write and read. Here there's a story about how prayer helped with cancer, being a spiritually celibate twentysomething, surviving a close call on 9/11, my take on the 2003 NYC blackout, and more.
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Science & Technology
Some stories on the brain and a piece on how laid-off dot-commers dealt with the aftermath of the boom.
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New York City
Born here, bred here, and back here, NYC is one of my deepest love-hate obsessions and touchstones. Here are some stories about it, from fluffy to tragic, just like home.
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Profiles
A profile of United States Historical Society's founder, Bob Kline, a chat with the mind-blowing Nick Nolte, and a little something on professional clowns.
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Real Estate
Most of these articles are from "Apartment Envy," a column that was on New York Today.com (of The New York Times)––it let me to do what every New Yorker craves: snoop around people's cool apartments.
New York Today's other real estate column, "Blueprints," did the same thing, but with buildings. Perfect for sating my life-long desire to explore the Chelsea Hotel...
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Unpublished Stuff
Thongs, the trial of Sherm Da Worm, teens getting tested for HIV--these are some things I wrote about for classes at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. I earned my master's degree there in May 2003.
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Galleries
These are wifty little text-lite, "clicky" galleries I've written for Beliefnet.
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F-F-F-F Fashion
While Content Manager of inshop.com, I conceived an online fashion magazine that included fashion how-to's, shoppers' horoscopes and a first-person shopping column.
As fashion editor of Fashion FACTS Folio, a trade newsletter for clients like Neiman Marcus and Joan Rivers, I wrote about accessories trends, attending fashion shows, shopping, scouting and reporting on tidbits such as Monica's bags, the sneaker-shoe phenom and Prada's mausoleum in SoHo.
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Event Listings
I know it's weird to have these tiny blurb-ettes in a portfolio, but I was doing my best to dazzle in some of my first pieces for New York Today.com (of The New York Times). I wrote over 70 event previews for them, sampled below.
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