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Things People Say to Creatives: “I could probably do that.”

Posted on December 1, 2020January 22, 2021 Yevgeniya
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The news is drowning me

Posted on August 10, 2019August 10, 2019 Yevgeniya

When I say “the news”, you must know what I mean? It’s everywhere, seeping into every conversation and every post

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Thanksgiving as an Immigrant Family

Posted on November 21, 2018October 19, 2020 Yevgeniya

Every year amidst the warm chaos of Thanksgiving, I look around at my family and think, “How the heck did

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Walking with a Toddler

Posted on November 16, 2018October 25, 2020 Yevgeniya

My day to day life involves chasing after a little girl who requires me to have a lot of energy

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We’re all too busy

Posted on June 9, 2016October 17, 2020 Yevgeniya

Have you noticed that when you ask someone how they’re doing, one of the common responses is “busy”. I’m guilty

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Let’s talk about memories

Posted on June 2, 2016October 25, 2020 Yevgeniya

When I wrote this in 2014, there was a viral momentum that pushed memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease into the

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Seeing Orion’s belt

Posted on January 3, 2016October 25, 2020 Yevgeniya

Before we started as freshman in high school, my class was sent on a weekend trip outside of New York

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On defining yourself: ‘Throw Things to the Flood’

Posted on September 22, 2015October 25, 2020 Yevgeniya

What makes you, you? People tend to compare themselves to others at different stages of their lives. Sometimes these comparisons

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Destroy history and you destroy humanity

Posted on September 2, 2015September 3, 2015 Yevgeniya

It was pretty alarming to read that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, and killed an archaeologist

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Get an angry call from the IRS? It might be a tax scam.

Posted on April 21, 2015November 19, 2018 Yevgeniya

A few months after last year’s tax day, my mom told me that she got a call from an abrasive

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