Month: April 2018
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The New York Series, Part IV
Excerpts from “Formative: The Years That Changed Everything” Here we are, at one of my favorite parts in the story of my grandparents! The following is the (TRUE!) story of how they met. Valentine’s Day. School dance. 1963. Want to know what happened before this? Catch up here. Photo by Andrew Knechel on Unsplash Kathleen, February 1963…
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The New York Series, Part III
Excerpts from “Formative: The Years That Changed Everything” Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash A little confused? Want to read the first two parts? Catch up here. Tommy, March 1961 He felt suspended, on edge, hopeful. A few weeks ago he found out that somehow, he’d managed to score well enough on the SAT to get a…
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A Note On Living Alone
What I Learned When I Traded 10,000 Lakes For 1,000,000 People As someone who is revisiting this piece only three weeks before graduating college, I can say that this year of twenty-one has been a fast changing one. Most of this post arose when I was in the really hard part of living on my…
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Let’s Talk Copy: Building SERENDIPITY
How Titles and Tag Lines Made A Professional Development Conference Shine Over the summer of 2017, I had the pleasure of helping to plan The GUILD’s first ever professional development conference, which welcomed over 250 women to San Francisco to hear from experts in industries ranging from tech to fitness. On top of coordinating dozens…
Emma Geary 