Paola de Varona

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Waiting for the right time

3 weeks ago | waitingfortherighttime.substack.com | Paola de Varona

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Sarah Jessica Parker Shuttered Her Shoe Line. Are High Heels Over?

Oct 30, 2024 | slate.com | Paola de Varona

Skip to the content Born to be an Entrepreneur Consumed When Netflix finally made Sex and the City available to the HBO-less masses, I, along with the rest of Gen Z, watched the series for the first time. I thought I would want to debate the merits of being a Carrie or a Miranda—or perhaps I’d do my astrological chart and discover I was a Samantha moon! But instead, I was enraptured by the ensemble’s fifth member and shadow government: the heels.
Sarah Jessica Parker Shuttered Her Shoe Line. Are High Heels Over?

Oct 30, 2024 | yahoo.com | Paola de Varona

When Netflix finally made Sex and the City available to the HBO-less masses, I, along with the rest of Gen Z, watched the series for the first time. I thought I would want to debate the merits of being a Carrie or a Miranda—or perhaps I’d do my astrological chart and discover I was a Samantha moon! But instead, I was enraptured by the ensemble’s fifth member and shadow government: the heels.
Advice Week: Friendship Edition

Sep 23, 2024 | slate.com | Paola de Varona

We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. It's my money!
Everyone Says Dating Is Impossible Now. But I've Struggled More With Something Just as Important.

Sep 22, 2024 | yahoo.com | Paola de Varona

This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We'll help you make friends, leave them- and even sleep with them. Four years ago, my fiancé and I drove his Honda Accord to central Illinois with my boxes of sweaters and his computer monitor blocking our rear view. We knew no one in the town we were headed to except each other; we were there because he was going to grad school, and I could work remotely.
Help! My Nonreligious Boyfriend Is Meeting My Ultra-Religious Parents.

May 24, 2024 | slate.com | Paola de Varona |Jenée Desmond-Harris

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The Head-Turning Questions People Sent Advice Columns Four Decades Ago—and 400 Years Ago

Jan 21, 2024 | slate.com | Paola de Varona

Life It’s Advice Week! In On Second Thought, we’ll revisit questions from the archives and dig into how much has changed since Slate began giving advice in 1997—and how much hasn’t. Read all stories here. In December 1997, Slate published its first-ever edition of Dear Prudence, beginning what would be a long tradition of advice columns in the magazine.
The Head-Turning Questions People Sent Advice Columns Four Decades Ago-and 400 Years Ago

Jan 21, 2024 | yahoo.com | Paola de Varona

It’s Advice Week! In On Second Thought, we’ll revisit questions from the archives and dig into how much has changed since Slate began giving advice in 1997—and how much hasn’t. Read all stories here. In December 1997, Slate published its first-ever edition of Dear Prudence, beginning what would be a long tradition of advice columns in the magazine.
How Gen Z influencer Kelsey Russell is getting her generation hooked on print media

Sep 24, 2023 | slate.com | Paola de Varona

Skip to the content Downtime It’s been a bleak year for the media. Just this past spring, news companies slashed budgets and instituted widespread layoffs, with a particularly rough round of executions that culminated in the end of BuzzFeed News and Vice News Tonight. At the same time, there’s been a growing complaint that no one—least of all Gen Z—has media literacy anymore.
Waiting for the Right Time Mission #18

Sep 10, 2023 | waitingfortherighttime.substack.com | Paola de Varona

It’s been a long time since we’ve talked. I left you all on a slightly sweaty walk full of anxious energy. I think I needed some time to get that all out of my system. I also did a little writing elsewhere in the meantime. Let me catch you up. TLDR; In this newsletter, I tackle something I’ve been avoiding. Or, waiting for the right time to execute. This summer began by writing letters. A week or two after that walk around campus, we drove 30 minutes from our house to a nearby lake.