Rachel Aydt has written for publications that include Time International, Prevention, Parents, Redbook, NYMag.com, The New York Times' parenting blog, Inked, and many more. For nearly two decades she worked on staff at publications including Cosmopolitan, YM, American Heritage, and CosmoGirl. She teaches magazine journalism at the New School for Public Engagement and for Parsons, and blogs about art, parenting, culture and New York City at NewYorkLostandFound.blogspot.com.
I asked people what their favorite drug memoir was on Facebook, and my comments feed started to burn. "Go Ask Alice! A classic!" Junkie. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.Naked Lunch. Trainspotting. The Basketball Diaries. The list, for the most part, reached back quite a few years, and went on...
I was so lucky that growing up I was taught to be frugal, use what we had, and not pine (too much) for that which we didn't have. We struggled financially, but we never went hungry, and most of all, we were loved "to the moon and back." I'm so...
I've just finished reading the new eBook anthology Welcome to My World, a collection of 13 essays written by mothers about work/life balance. I contributed a piece called "Robot Moms in the Closet," whereby I imagined a science fiction world where a mother could call upon various robot...
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