Jeff Namian

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Some Enchanted Evening

As the song goes, boy did I meet a stranger from across a crowded room.  The room was the lobby bar of the W Hotel.  The stranger was a middle aged...

So You Think You Can Teach

I signed up with an agency a few years ago to be a substitute teacher. It’s pretty easy to manage. You go online the night before and see who’s out...

Political Profiling

I'm visiting my better half in Houston for a few weeks.  I don't hate it, it being Texas.  But I can't stop staring at people to weigh who they...

Me, Myself and I

Me:  Table for one, please. Them:  Would you like the counter instead? Me:  No I'd like a table for one. Them:  No waiting for the counter.  Twenty...

Medi-cares

Do they?  They're mostly pests that feed on older people's vulnerability. Their flash cards include words like copay, tier one or two drugs,...

Pontius Pilate

Who the hell is he?  His name only comes up around this time of year. Every Spring somebody ascends and sitteth next to Pontius Pilate.   And why is...

Patience

The older I get the less I have of it and the tiniest things rev my engine.  Like just this morning.  I was hungry and weighed all the morning...

A Delicate Balance

Penned by Edward Albee circa 1965.   Premiered in 1966.   Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967.   The first of three Pulitzer Prizes for Edward...

Elevator Etiquette

The elevator opens on the seventeenth floor and somebody enters.  First I calculate the amount of time it'll take to hit the lobby level.  Do I...

Wire Management

I'm sure everyone struggles with organizing all the cables and wires it takes to navigate this modern world.  There's the cable box wire, the wifi...

Gentrifying Neighborhoods

  My partner-husband (still having trouble embracing the husband deal) twice scored big in the real estate gentrification game. Our first was with a co-op in Washington Heights that wasn't even fit (well ok it was fit for) heroin addicts and sidewalk Sallys who...

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First Podcast Featuring My Vibrant Vocal Chords

  Monday / January 29 / 6:15 PM (EST) ReaderHouse Podcast with: Jeff Namian   /   Author of Occupational Studies Interview with Allie Lasher, Program Coordinator I'm not sure how or when to hear it.  I think it's on CBS Podcast Channel but not sure.  I'll let you...

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The City Housewife’s Tale

No no no, take a left Margarita, shouts Julianne.   Julianne is a good half a block behind her nanny and baby.  She's on her cell and just had her nails done.  Her holding cell paw is a jazz hand straight outta Fosse.  The nails could stop traffic.  Oh so red.  And...

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Jeff Namian

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Philadelphia, Pa

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