Mindpop: “The Escape”

“Before my stroke, I was a dot-comer with a hip job in a downtown office painted kindergarten colors. I wore vintage clothing and stompy boots. I was cute enough: small and wimpy, pale, with very dark hair and strong eyebrows.”
 — Hairpin pal Nina Mitchell has a great piece in The Atlantic. (See also: her series for this site, and for her own site, Mindpop.)