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[Mary Lowengard @MLowengard]

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I am celebrating my first month as a genuine (self-)published book author, which has proven to be as much of an adventure as facing down the cleanout of 64 years of compacted fireplace ash, figuring out the workings of a Suncast c…https://t.co/dWSpn0Wvj9

[Mary Lowengard @MLowengard]

In the summer of 2013, I had a hankering to buy a country house.

Ten years later, I had a hankering to publish a book about my hankering to buy a country house documenting the happy, funny, sometimes wild ride of ownership in a c…https://t.co/dHswAmDPdg https://t.co/yBjjl56Uhn

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Former attorney-slash-Goldman Sachs banker-now-finance-writer Matt Levine recently opined in an interview on the “brain drain” of sharp, ambitious, well-educated college graduates who are willing to work hard but not really sure wh…https://t.co/8EXhqEx9zy https://t.co/zjnjz7Trqe

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At some point after I completed my MBA, business school travel became a Big Thing, supporting a healthy cottage industry of travel agencies that organize huge groups heading to exotic locales not only before students start (i.e., o…https://t.co/jPGgmK2FKg https://t.co/KS2nozIcAw

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Ah, the death of the sell side.

It’s a head-turning headline that perennially pops up in one form or another in the world of financial journalism. Indeed, my very first article for Institutional Investor, published in November 19…https://t.co/iHqu9QuEa3 https://t.co/wneWcikzLv

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My side gig of writing obituaries was tested to the limit this week as I worked to create an elegy worthy of my neighbor, Bode Osunsanmi, MBA, NYC Marathoner, who passed away on August 23.

I didn't have a clue that he had died un…https://t.co/NNqbwB5vxp https://t.co/OXyhUhiBSO

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Here's a follow up to an earlier article I wrote where I asked a bunch of MBAs if they thought the experience was worth it, enough so to do it all over again. The cohort of night-school warriors -- EMBAs -- were somewhat less sang…https://t.co/VggaSPjMb0 https://t.co/lN2jj0gOzC

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Dr. Choudaha was a great interview and very helpful with this article -- and even beat me to the punch posting it. My suspicion is that the companies have pulled back on offering lots of perks attached to offers because they have been focused in recent ye…https://t.co/oPi6i9dkQB

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One more for the road, dear readers.

Cottage Chronicle, that is. While technically speaking, the Chronicles concluded with sale of my Bucknoll abode as described in last week’s column, I was contracted to write 20 articles and a…https://t.co/D2WcK07b9W https://t.co/BqkX63eTHL

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OK, this is it! The final chapter of my Bucknoll saga.

More accurately, the penultimate piece in my 20-week Cottage Chronicles. Next week I will offer a coda to the series.

I can’t think of anything that I’ve ever done over 20 we…https://t.co/RAcHhT2O2G https://t.co/ciC1qbx5xj

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Here's Cottage Chronicle #18 for your Friday reading pleasure. In it, I ruminate on all the things I wanted to do but didn't in terms of fixing up my Bucknoll home.

With thanks to my fearless and peerless editors, Nancy McKeon an…https://t.co/ni817UqBEd https://t.co/lXoY6dwVmR

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Here's my latest piece for #fortunemagazine . I polled a cohort of business school graduates who attended business school in the 1980s about whether they felt their MBA was worth it and would they do it all over again at today’s st…https://t.co/oerXsWki4V https://t.co/L6QepEA0dI

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Have you ever wondered why people take vacations from their vacation homes? I did. Not sure I got any closer to the truth in looking into this phenomenon in Bucknoll, but I gave it a try.

Lazy me, I am just now posting this weeken…https://t.co/7nWOu6XCwx https://t.co/lMciEvqwxY

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Listen up! Literally! It's my very first ever podcast, all about what a cheapskate I am when it comes to travelling.

Actually, this is really about the joys of swapping my apartment for amazing places around the world.

Take a lis…https://t.co/BKciiqSsDW https://t.co/K8nnpDkkaG

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Today, we consider a few of the many rules that govern civil society in Bucknoll that have been promulgated to keep Bucknoll society civil.

Cottage Chronicles has approached this topic previously. It’s a rule that one must have…https://t.co/S3t18VKjzl https://t.co/FvoTn4owNd

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Yes, I anticipate howls of protest from readers of Cottage Chronicle #15. If you are observant, you will instantly notice it doubles as a pedantic sort of word search. Apologies to those who are reluctant to play along; I can guara…https://t.co/w3QAtZUqAR https://t.co/rL3yIqyJjx

[Mary Lowengard @MLowengard]

My thoughts for Friday morning:

Good editing is a gift. GREAT editing is so rare it falls into the realm of miraculous.

This morning, at 3:26 AM I received a text from my editor Nancy McKeon wondering if a reference to DE in the…https://t.co/UaJn53gaqY https://t.co/IMxVx1qP41

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Quite uncharacteristically, I actually did some reporting before embarking on writing this week's Cottage Chronicle, my lucky thirteenth in the series.

I called my friend Buzz, asking him how he feels about winter in summer, and…https://t.co/UqxXKQApAj https://t.co/qmooCLJdVD

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You may not be a paper-hoarding writer from back in the day like I am, when we were instructed by our employers to “keep it all” because a lawsuit might arise from a column on Best Annual Reports of 1991, but I’m sure that many can…https://t.co/lyZE3X0CfJ https://t.co/48QuinDtqE

[Mary Lowengard @MLowengard]

Apologies for the late Friday posting. The story was up but I was not!
Here is Cottage Chronicle #11, all about the games people play (yes, complete with a link to the Alan Parson Project’s symphonic take on the topic) when it’s to…https://t.co/YRkQjNRgwQ https://t.co/07LBGkX2Bo