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Letter to my ADHD Brain (featuring some teacher comments from NYC private schools)
For much of my life, I’ve debased and ridiculed you—my sorry little cabbage.
 • Elissa Devins
Picketing on a Sweltering July day and a related Creative Art Project for the Summer: Decorate your own Silk Fan (It's quick, fun and will…
Recently, my legal services organization went on strike, which, for me, meant picketing outside our downtown NYC office building with a throng of mostly…
 • Elissa Devins
Forget those Flip Phones and those Crazy Wired Headphones: An Exploration of some Truly Ancient Forms of Communication/Technologies, e.g…
In order to prevent my tween daughter from glomming onto her i-pad after she returns from camp this summer, I may gift her an old-fashioned rotary phone…
 • Elissa Devins
Elissa, Ha (referencing the film Frances, Ha): the good and ugly side of humor
I know I’m not the only list-lover who bee-lined to the NY Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century and the Directors List.
 • Elissa Devins
돼지 목에 진주목걸이, a Korean expression that translates to: A pearl necklace on a pig’s neck. (This is used when something valuable is wasted on…
I often search online for playful Korean expressions that relate to my life/my interests in some way, and the one above, which translates into “a pearl…
 • Elissa Devins
CMCA Summer Creative Challenge 2025: Things to do at home when you are heat-avoidant and don't have Big Summer Plans
The only thing that could compel me to leave my apartment during the recent three day NYC heatwave was the undeniable odor of five very robustly packed…
 • Elissa Devins
The New York Times Story that Shook a very Niche Group (Korean Adoptees like me who were adopted in the 1970's)and Four Curious Little…
Lately, I’ve been reluctant to explore my Korean identity.
 • Elissa Devins
Crazy Middle Class Asian
Crazy Middle Class Asian
A Korean-American adoptee exploring South Korean culture, class conflict, treehouses, art, politics, ADHD, creativity, Q and A's with creators and more
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