News writer

Feature writer

Fashion writer

Well, okay, but that was then. This is now:

Freelance writer

Essayist

Novelist

Spinner of yarns

Memoirist

As well as …

Bed-sheet ironer (ever since Downton Abbey)

Gosh-awful golfer

Risk-tolerant bidder at the bridge table

Impromptu recipe adjuster

Size four with room to spare, many moons ago

Owner of mile-high evening shoes, purely for nostalgia

Word maker-upper (see below)

French-language massacre-er

Bourbon Old-Fashioned mixologist extraordinaire

Salon client who readjusts a $100 haircut with a kitchen shears

Late-night Internet Scrabble player

Pretty darn good seamstress

Pretty darn good storyteller