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Oh, hi friends!
The light in my refrigerator was off. Everything in the freezer was thawing, the cardboard Trader Joe’s boxes sweating. My milk was warm, like fresh from a cow. In a bad way. Out it all went into the trash.
Something had gone wrong with the electricity in one little corner of my apartment. But where was the fuse box? In the basement of the building? In the closet? Text the super, etc. A couple days passed — I had other stuff to do, and who needs milk anyway, right?!
And then my landlord (ladylord! hi, Fam!) said the fuse box was actually right in my apartment, above the intercom. And I looked — and there it was. A small white door that I’d never noticed. You open, you flip a switch, power back on.
Um.
Take a look around.
Sometimes the answer is right in front of your face.
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It was 90 degrees yesterday in New York. Today it’s 58. Instead of hating it, I'm gonna cocoon myself in these little droplets.
Photo by Gabriele Diwald on Unsplash
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“Why does a character have to be likable as long as they’re compelling?
This is paraphrased from a panel with composer Jeanine Tesori at the Brooklyn Book Festival a few weeks ago. Look at TV — how many “likable” characters are on the biggest shows of the moment? Do we ask characters in theater to be likable? Films? What’s the line between likable and watchable? All things I’m pondering…
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Sometimes you wanna run a marathon, sometimes you wanna sprint. Sprinting is FUN. That’s why I jumped at the chance to write a few short monologues for my brother Eric’s Monovlog series featuring some of his favorite actors (and writers...hah! is this nepotism?).
“The Little Things,” featuring the great Leah Nicole Raymond, is especially apt since I saw five (!) raccoons in Prospect Park last Friday. At the link above and also on Instagram!
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PS — Hi! If you came here from my email tips in this week's New York Times Smarter Living newsletter, welcome! I’m Kara! Like the unstoppable Tim Herrera, I'm interested in cultivating good work and life habits and, well, living smarter. I send this short email every morning as a little pick-me-up touching on work and life and creativity and writing and other stuff, because life is 98% “other stuff.”
Say hi anytime!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara
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