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What My Dad Taught Me About Money

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A memoir of money.  “Do you think I’m made of money?” my dad asked me when I was 10, desperately wanting him to buy me a new tabletop pinball machine with flashing lights, automatic scoring, flippers that lit up, and steel balls. In my mind, this was high stakes, a make-or-break moment for my summer…

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DC Dining (Bisnow)

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I guest edited (wrote and photographed) Bisnow’s DC Dining Newsletter.  This is the June 15, 2012 edition.

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Beat the Heat This Summer

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Wallet: check. Phone: check. Portable air fan… wait, what?  Summer’s officially here and you’re ready to date (and even get a little hot and bothered… but only in a good way, right?) No one wants any hopes of reveling in a date’s company dashed by the one-two punch of a blistering sun and wilting humidity…

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SAGE Celebrates Big Birthday

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Sage Celebrates a Birthday: Gay Boomers and Beyond I wrote this to celebrate a big birthday for the best organization for older LGBT.

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60th Anniversary of The Lavender Scare

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On the 60th Anniversary of The Lavender Scare, Don’t Forget About LGBT Employment Discrimination (April 2013) Did you know that this year marks the 60th anniversary of a witch hunt against gays and lesbians that was as aggressive and vicious as any in modern American history? On April 27, 1953, the President of the United…

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Slow Dancing with a Stranger

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Blunt, funny and – make no mistake – not out for sympathy, she’s equal parts Florence Nightingale, Dorothy Zbornak and Norma Rae. That’s how I’d sum up Meryl Comer, author of Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer’s. Read about her in my Caring.com profile and Q&A. After years of…

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