Subrina HeyinkSubrina Heyink is a vintage buyer and stylist curating vintage for the last 4yrs at Subrina Heyink Vintage. In my 7 years working in the fashion industry what I enjoyed the most was helping people get dressed, that's what this newsletter is about. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kjbTBwaugp5mYmsaquso%3D

I am having a Sunday, reclined on a chaise on the deck. Tomorrow is Labor Day, a Labor Day too early to be the traditional end of summer. I’m looking back on past summers, riding a wave of nostalgia. Nothing I’m remembering ever happened to me. It’s all a fiction I make up as I go along. I’m inspired by journalists who keep writing articles about the eleven-bedroom “cottages” of their youthful summers on Cape Cod, in the Hamptons, in Maine.

I've always been bothered by how teams use words and phrases like maintenance, keeping the lights on (KTLO), and business as usual. I get what they mean, but there always seems to be a stigma around this work. This is problematic because work in this category is often the highest leverage/value work a team might tackle. When we maintain a car—oil changes, tire rotations, etc.—we aim to keep the car running smoothly and safely.

From time to time I am asked by well-meaning friends and family if I might want to pick up a class here and there to scratch my itch for teaching. I do, in fact, hope to find my way back to a classroom in some form. But it’s hard to explain why just any old class won’t do. Part of it is that another term for “adjunct” is “contingent.” If I often felt exploited as a full professor, I can’t imagine that assuming an explicitly marginal role within an institution would prove satisfying.

I don’t speak Yiddish fluently. Or even semi-fluently. But having lived in New York City for thirty-five years, I acquired a basic store of Yiddish words that, like many New Yorkers, Jewish or not, I employ as part of my ongoing vocabulary. Plus a smattering of Jewish expressions in English. The language may be dying, but certain words live on, and, I hope, always will. I moved to rural Louisiana last June to be with my girlfriend, Gaywynn.