31
Aug
A Stitch in Time
Twenty-one sleeps, one haircut, one $6 box of hair dye, and no one's showed up to get me. I figure it's time to learn the name of this new town— time to...
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26
Aug
Does Consumer-Brand Mismatch Mean That Authenticity is a Waste of Time and Money?
With consumers identifying less than half of brand-created content as authentic, why do brands still pour so many resources into...
24
Aug
There's Cake And Then There's Cake
“It’s gotta be from Gino’s," my mom says, "They’re the only ones that use real lemon.” She's a big believer in brand name authenticity.
“But…”
“No ‘buts.’ You know your sister...
04
Jun
I get to the front of the queue and my purchases tumble from my arms onto the counter. The cashier rings them up and announces that I qualify for a free gift, a cold...
03
Jun
A pot, two pans, five mugs, a fat wine glass and plastic basin for the dishes: the whole inventory of water-bearing objects in my apartment. I have arranged them in the middle of my...
02
Jun
There are 3 of us on the motorcycle. I don’t trust the driver, but I trust myself less.
We stop for help. There’s one house. It’s just a platform on stilts. There are children: six...
01
Jun
The metro doors beep in time to the nervous chattering of my teeth. A Spanish Adonis has sat across from me and I. Am. Losing. It. I don’t usually fall for looks; I like...
19
May
Monday passed and the package didn’t come. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday too. Today carries the last real hope. Saturday’s always a wildcard and Sunday, of course, gets skipped.
So I’m taking no chances. My guard...
18
May
At the heart of the market is stall 14. Save for the man seated in the middle of the uneven floor, the stall is empty. The makeshift shelves are lined with dust, cobwebs, and...
13
May
So I want a glass of wine, right? Plus I have a new red I want to try.
So I look around for my corkscrew. And look, and look and look. I discover 2 monitors,...