Laura Rebecca

Snarky. Serious. Sincere. So what?

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Laura Rebecca is a writer, editor, teacher, and tattooed yoga nerd from NY who currently lives on the West Coast. She obsessively makes art, drinks tea, dreams about Paris, and writes about education, fitness, technology, health, and culture.
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Now with Purpose
08/04/2020
Can The Lost Art of Letter Writing Make A Comeback?

"Please, Mr. Postman, look and see; Is there a letter in your bag for me?" - Please Mr. Postman, The Marvelettes, 1961 Before there were DMs, IMs, texts, FaceTime, voicemail, phone calls, and even telegrams...there were letters. Letters are our window into history: we see them in museums, we read them and about them in history books, we watch them recreated in documentaries.

TakeLessons Blog
10/23/2020
How to Get into Acting: Starting a Career in Theater

Do you dream of a career in Theater? Is the stage your "happy place"? Has "Actor" become your dream job description? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, but don't know what steps to take next to make your dream a reality, then you've come to the right place.

Medium
09/26/2017
A love letter to the print edition of the Village Voice (RIP)

The inevitability of growing old is that everything in your life eventually becomes the stuff of nostalgia. This is me holding the last print issue of the Village Voice. It was mailed to my home in Los Angeles by a writer friend who now lives in New York whom I met shortly after I first arrived in LA five years ago.

Chegg Play
10/23/2012
Writing a Research Paper: Getting Started | Chegg Play

In my last blog post, I offered some suggestions on how to choose a research paper topic. In this post, we'll look at some of challenges you might face when starting a draft, as well as ways to overcome those challenges.

Now with Purpose
09/15/2021
Not Your Grandma's Instant Coffee

Instant coffee is having a "moment," as the kids say. We can all agree that there's a lot of uncertainty these days; as a result, we struggle to cling to those things we actually can be certain of. For me personally, I need to be able to depend on my morning coffee.

Linkedin
09/19/2016
My latest technology tools

"It takes 66 days to develop a new habit." My friend Danice has been encouraging me to post more about technology, since according to her I'm "ahead

Medium
09/13/2016
Ode to a Pencil - The Scribery Co. - Medium

I can never seem to hang on to a decent pen. I lose them, I misplace them; I leave one unattended for two seconds and suddenly someone has commandeered it. A pen is not simply a pen. Use a crappy pen, and see what I mean.

Medium
08/31/2016
5 ways to start a digital detox - Laura Rebecca - Medium

I recently did a 48 hour digital detox ( read about it here). The motivation for this was a desire to stop consuming so much via my cell phone, and hopefully start creating more. Based on a LOT of research I did (and my own field trials), here are 5 ways I found to effectively ease into a digital detox...

LAURA REBECCA TEACHES YOGA
09/07/2018
The Truth about Entrepreneurship and why it sucks

"People out here talking about owning a successful business like it's as easy as owning a 🐶 puppy. "--Gary Vaynerhuck @garyvee My father was an Entrepreneur. Spoiler alert: the most valuable lesson I learned from my father is that entrepreneurship is not easy, and does not necessarily equate freedom.

LAURA REBECCA TEACHES YOGA
06/12/2019
Why I believe the new wave of meal replacements are the future of our diet.

Hear me out. Most of my life, I didn't give much thought to meal replacements or supplement drinks/shakes; I just never seemed, in my mind, to fit into the category that they were intended for. MetRX was for bodybuilders. Ensure was for seniors. Slimfast was for those who wanted to lose weight.

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01/01/2023
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