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“I was at that concert,” said the microwave repairman as he eyed my husband’s masterpiece, hanging in a black floating frame in our kitchen hallway. It was a ticket collage comprised of concert and event stubs, some dating back to the early 80s.
“Everyone finds a concert they were at,” I said, grinning while writing out his check....

I have a new friend. His name is Ishmael. We talk about books and that always makes me weak in the knees. He is swoon worthy.
But the truth is my crush is not on Ishmael himself. He is actually just a voicemail. I do however have a full-fledged crush on Stephanie Kent who introduced me to Ishmael. She is the editor of Call Me, Ishmael. She has also worked for the Wall Street...

When I was 9-years-old, my mother placed a small statue with a tented note on my nightstand as I slept. It was a figurine of a woman about 10 inches tall made of onyx-glazed porcelain. She was expressionless, abstract and angular. Her face tucked toward...

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine helped start something special. Something that reminds us we are part of a community—that the whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts. Something we should share widely and celebrate because it feels...