MY WEEKLY BLOG What Shape Are You? When I was accepted into the Harkness Ballet Company, I didn’t sleep that night. I was a sixteen-year-old ballerina filled with bubbles and ambrosia. Champagne and caviar at the Russian Tea Room. Chocolate mousse at Rumplemayer’s. I...
MY WEEKLY BLOG HELP! When I was six or seven, I used to sit on my parent’s bed and watch the Olympics on a black and white television. I was mesmerized bywhat athletes were capable of: Skiing, gymnastics, swimming, diving and for me, the crème de la crème, figure...
MY WEEKLY BLOG DEATH OF A WARRIOR: A TRIBUTE In the year 2000, I had a meeting with a woman named JamiGoldman who was looking for a writer to tell her story. Back in 1987, when she was 19, she and a girlfriend were returning from a ski trip when an unexpected...
Prompt Mean Girls (and Boys) I’m walking down the stone stairs in my grammar school,gripping the wooden banister. The bathrooms are located in the basement and we’re all walking in a row. This is my first day of kindergarten. I’m scared. I haven’t been around a lot of...
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