I cooked on an island in the Adirondacks, hired sight unseen on the strength of a recommendation from a previous camp cook.| millicent.substack.com
Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us is a collection of essays by primarily Gen X women, conceived by and edited by Sonya Huber and Martha Bayne.| millicent.substack.com
“There are children everywhere” I muttered under my breath, waiting for the monorail to Hollywood Studios.| millicent.substack.com
The Card That Changed Me| millicent.substack.com
A few months ago my sister Molli told me that our mother Sally wanted us all to go to Disney World in Orlando, Florida, because Maggi, our other sibling, and Molli’s twin, has a conference there for work.| Attitude Adjustment Facility
We are amidst a mayoral election in New York City.| millicent.substack.com
Summers on the farm were spent taking care of all the chores that slip through the cracks of shorter, colder days with school—fixing fences, dehorning cattle, deep-cleaning the stalls, stacking bales, always stacking bales.| Attitude Adjustment Facility
The first really nice, high end fashion item of clothing I purchased, ever I think, was a black silk jumpsuit from Beth Ditto’s eponymous plus-sized clothing line.| millicent.substack.com
and the chip on my shoulder| millicent.substack.com
Last Sunday, Marlow & Sons in Williamsburg had its last service.| millicent.substack.com
The first time I saw Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, a 1996 documentary about the West Memphis Three was maybe during the Chicago Film Festival and definitely at the Music Box, arthouse and independent movie theater.| millicent.substack.com
A few mornings ago I heard ambulance sirens all around my apartment.| Attitude Adjustment Facility
Boomers to the Rescue: The Parents Who Pay for City Lives and How They Do It was New York Magazine’s February 10th cover story.| millicent.substack.com
When I applied to become the New York Times restaurant critic, it wasn’t completely a prank.| Attitude Adjustment Facility
Advice I wrote for an opening but never had the chance to give.| millicent.substack.com
In 2021 I was invited to write an essay about my favorite glassware for Un Balloon, a beautiful hardbound journal published by Domestique Wine in Washington DC, designed and produced by Can Can Press in Mexico City.| millicent.substack.com
I have a confession to make.| millicent.substack.com
It wasn’t PTSD when I looked at the polls and Trump was ahead early on.| millicent.substack.com
I saw the British band Pulp on Saturday night, a second of two sold-out reunion shows.| millicent.substack.com
Crest Hardware and Urban Garden Center, a family-owned store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, closed its doors last week after being in business for 62 years.| millicent.substack.com
Just last week Eater reported on an unfortunate incident at She Wolf Bakery, a naturally-leavened bakery that focuses on using local grains in Brooklyn.| millicent.substack.com
