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Weekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.
Aug 11, 2023
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Self-Evident Truths Get Smacked Down By Reality
Pretending that we are all created equal leads the privileged to narcissism and the non-privileged to despair. It divides us into winners and losers, as…
Jul 4
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Parents: You Can't Live Without Them
In 1987, Debbie and I, ages 24 and 25, purchased a completely inappropriate Upper West Side apartment in anticipation of having our first child.
Jun 27
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I Was Saved From Humiliation By My Father When I Was Sixteen
A summer night in 1978 on the Jersey Shore.
Jun 20
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This Is News
When something is so pervasive, it becomes difficult to separate it from our reality.
Jun 13
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