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In Praise of Twitch DJs

(and their service during lockdown)

2020 upended us. Our daily routines were disrupted, and in cities like Los Angeles, which was subject to a series of lockdowns, closures, and curfews, our connections to one another were abruptly altered. My studio was closed, and I was stuck in my one-room apartment with a senior dog who was blind and deaf. Restaurants sat empty; some closed. Supermarkets and stores were a danger zone, and the shelves were empty anyway. Some Uber drivers refused to drive. And s...

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Explore a featured selection of my writing work below.
Now with Purpose •

"Bullet Journaling": A Fresh Way to Sort Your Life

In my youth, I always explained away my disorganization as my being “artistic.” Once I began my full-time career as an adult, however, the need to plan, organize, and manage my time became more than just an exercise in clerical development. Yet I felt so lost. And it wasn’t that I didn’t try: I was an early adopter of the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant); I embraced gadget features like digital calendars and virtual notepads; I even used that task-tracking app “Remember the Milk.” If there was a...
Now with Purpose •

Can The Lost Art of Letter Writing Make A Comeback?

“Please, Mr. Postman, look and see;
Is there a letter in your bag for me?”
–Please Mr. Postman, The Marvelettes, 1961

Before there were DMs, IMs, texts, FaceTime, voicemail, phone calls, and even telegrams…there were letters. Letters are our window into history: we see them in museums, we read them and about them in history books, we watch them recreated in documentaries. How often do we actually write them these days? I’m not talking about postcards, holiday greetings, birthday cards: I mean,...
CultureSonar •

Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll...and Qi Gong?

While many of us mere mortals may generalize that the typical “rock star” lifestyle is notoriously self-destructive, we might be wrong. Certainly,  crazy hotel-room legends and debauched touring tales abound in the chronicles of rock and roll. However,  many famous musicians and performers today are more likely to be found meditating on a yoga mat or moving through an advanced tai chi form than they would be found partying like, well, a rock star. Here’s a random sampling of five  contemporary (...
Medium •

A love letter to the print edition of the Village Voice (RIP)

The inevitability of growing old is that everything in your life eventually becomes the stuff of nostalgia.This is me holding the last print issue of the Village Voice. It was mailed to my home in Los Angeles by a writer friend who now lives in New York whom I met shortly after I first arrived in LA five years ago. The full-circleness of that is not lost on me.Some may not see what the big deal is, especially if you live in LA surrounded by free copies of the LAWeekly at every bodega in town, so...
Punkt. Newsletter •

The Trials and Tribulations of A Digital Detox

For 48 hours I stowed my fancy phablet in a drawer and popped my SIM card into the Punkt. MP01 for their Digital Detox challenge. Here’s what happened:

Hour one: No Notifications!

I was relieved to be notification-free for the first couple of hours into my detox. We all know how those notifications beg to be viewed immediately. See no notifications, hear no notifications, read no notifications.

Hour three: No Signal

One major drawback of the otherwise-perfect Punkt. phone is reliance...

About Me

Laura Rebecca is a writer, editor, illustrator, former teacher, and yoga nerd from NY who currently lives on the West Coast. Laura has a BA from Hofstra University, an MS from USC, and attended New York Film Academy. She has taught at Adelphi University in addition to a whole bunch of other places.

(And yes, that's her real last name. It's Sicilian.)

She creates art, consumes coffee, dreams of Paris, and writes articles on education, fitness, technology, health, and culture in addition to flash fiction, autofiction, screenplays, and poetry.

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