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Communications, Content Marketing, Service Writing, and Opinion Pieces on Finance, Real Estate, Education, and Women's/Feminist Issues.
Service Writing: K-12 Education / Parenting
Regular mindfulness practice can help children feel less anxious, more self-accepting, and more aware of and in control of their feelings.
The word "gifted" is arguably one of the most misunderstood terms in education.
No parent wants her child's opportunity for an education wasted.
For many parents and educators, "gifted" is an uncomfortable word.
Content Marketing: Financial Communications
Starting a new job is a good time to reassess your financial state of affairs.
If you’re a recent graduate, investing might feel like something to think about later.
I’m creating a “Virtual Cocktail Hour,” and you’re invited to join in the fun.
A toast to you for surviving January.
One of the challenging things about financial communications is that you rarely get to meet your investors.
When change is afoot, bosses often want to rein budgets in.
Expanding your communications strategy can give your investment firm a bigger footprint and draw in new clients.
When times are good, client reporting is easy.
How can you get the help you need without losing control of your final product?
Content Marketing: Real Estate
Romantic and picturesque, ivy on a home evokes tradition and a sense of permanence.
Outdoor cooking and dining is one of life’sgreatest simple pleasures.
An estate with its own helipad offers the ultimate in both privacy and convenience.
Combining beauty and function, chandeliers are older than electricity itself.
Summer on the Aegean. Winter in the Caribbean. A ski trip to Telluride.
The transformation of Hayes Valley is one of the great success stories of 21st century San Francisco.
Nautical style is said to have launched when Queen Victoria dressed the young Prince Albert Edward in a sailor suit
Few things feel more resort-like and tropical than poolside drinks.
As winter once again settles in up north, Miami’s evergreen attractions bloom even brighter.
The neighborhood will always evoke the artistic cool of 1960s and ’70s New York
Investing in real estate is a tried and true method of growing wealth—but is it better to buy and hold, or to buy and flip?
Opinion Pieces
There's a saying in educational circles: white kids get diagnosed, black kids get disciplined.
A standing-room only crowd attended the hearing on guns and domestic violence.
The right wing renews its commitment to lying about sex ed. File under "no shit, Sherlock."
A British newspaper pronounces the academic discipline "predictable, tiresome and dreary." Oh, look - is feminism dead? Again?
I think I pretty much owe my straight-suburban-married-housewife-with-one kid life to the gays.
Reviews and Recaps
Ari Kelman's new book is a complicated and beautiful narrative about narrative, a series of connected and interwoven stories about history and histories.
Up to the end of the opening credits this week's episode of Breaking Bad still looked like a 70s Western. Afterwards, though, it was straight horror.
I just finished reading We Need to Talk About Kevin. Jesus christ, is this a terrifying novel.
Academic Writing, Talks, and Blogging
This essay identifies two new devices in the early eighteenth-century essay periodical, rhetorical femininity and the family metaphor.
The enabling fiction of the public sphere is an illusion, but one with real ideological power.
At the heart of the "where-are-the-women-bloggers" question is the issue of what counts as public discourse.
After week of racial turmoil and administrative disruption, U of Missouri begins long journey of working with student activists as it permanently replaces its two top leaders.