Archive - pithy outcomes

One year of olives

Our currently indicted mayor Eric Adams said this last winter about New York City: “This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience…

Sep 26 •

How to have the perfect NYC beach day

How to go to the Rockaways — from your favorite NYC beachgoer.

Sep 3 •

July 2024

I can't go on / I'll go on

Nearly a year ago I was laid off.

Jul 11 •

May 2024

seafood chic weddings, 18 olives, moving bins, etc

welcome back to my newsletter!

May 21 •

September 2023

And now for something completely different

I did something amazing and sort of miraculous while I worked in journalism: I didn’t get laid off once from three different jobs at three wildly…

Sep 26, 2023 •

August 2023

a birthday dispatch

Aug 18, 2023 •

July 2023

you'll be positive though it hurts, and you'll laugh and embrace all your friends

Jul 19, 2023 •

figuring it out again

pardon this rant

Jul 14, 2023 •

May 2023

for actual free speech, not some weird bastardized version of that phrase

May 17, 2023 •

How to sell your clothes on Instagram without losing your mind

*My mind is mostly intact. I think.

May 10, 2023 •

April 2023

There are too many places to write things now

Also: I am turning on payments on Substack!

Apr 27, 2023 •

i'm mad on behalf of all the people who got laid off in media today

I planned to publish an interview with my mom today about the 90s and pasta salad but that will wait until next week (sorry, mom).

Apr 20, 2023 •

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