$200; hours on the phone with the insurance company, a lawyer, and an accountant; a hero…
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Stories from life in NYC
Officer Education
One of my earliest memories of life in NYC was stopping two police officers to report…
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Grad Giveaway Grief
Test Prep Materials (Williamsburg) Teachers’ materials for SAT, GRE, SHSAT, and GMAT. Mostly 2005-2012, some with…
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Personal Identification Crisis
PayPal told me to enter my four-digit security code “one digit at a time.” How else…
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The Good, the Fair, and the Right
Sometimes doing what’s fair doesn’t result in doing good. Smart people analyze how this counter-intuitive truth…
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Take My Sheets… Please!
I got some new sheets as a gift and decided to offer my old ones free…
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NYC Trivia
After 9-11, there was a brief period during which the rest of the country liked New…
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Ratmobile
Want to hear the grossest thing ever? Okay not ever, but still gross enough. My car’s…
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Directions & Perspective
For a while now I’ve been eying some of the brightly patterned back packs my students…
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Lost Wallet
I lost my wallet on the bench in the subway station near my house. Is it…
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