on the prowl.

with a newly revised resume to reflect my recently updated status as a college graduate, i started my search.  i drafted a cover letter and pounded the pavement.   “college graduate willing to work long hours, no benefits…hell, even for no pay.”  well, not quite that desperate, but you get the picture.
i emailed/called a dozen restaurants [...]

bubbe.

my grandmother was            a m a z i n g.
i’ll have more coherent things to say in a few hours, but for now i’ll just say that she lived such a jam-packed life.  she was born before world war I, got a nose job during the depression, sent her husband  [...]

the real deal

after realizing yesterday that substitute teaching was not my calling, i finally got my act together and began applying to jobs in the food world.  cooking, prepping, pastry chef-ing.  i’d narrowed down the list of all the restaurants in new york city to my top dozen or dozen an a half and began sending my [...]

this used to be my playground.

today i did what all good college graduates are supposed to do: i went back to my roots.
and for today’s story, my “roots” is my private elementary school in the bronx. but today i was not a student or a visitor; today i was a substitute teacher. i wasn’t one of [...]

welcome back, rachel.

so this is it.  college is o-ver.  history.  it is now the past tense.  now i can say things like “when i was in college…” or “wow, i was crazy in my college days.”
graduating from high school wasn’t nearly this momentous; we all had the same next step: I am going to _____ University next [...]