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Archive for November 2023

NEW YORK IS IN AMERICA

WITH MY NAKED EYE Today I spent all day with academic dermatologists at a meeting downtown. I left my house before sunrise to walk down to the train, feeling fly in my new, very-expensive-in-theory-but-not-to-me (thanks Poshmark!) sweater. It is a crazy soft turtleneck* made of YAK HAIR and I have never worn yak before! I […]

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I am very bad at anything involving small precise movements. I cannot thread a needle, nicely wrap gifts, or reattach all the nerves in your nearly-severed hand. I unwisely took a barre class one time. Although I hate guns, the class made me angry enough that it was a good thing I was not concealed-carrying […]