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Born in the Bronx, Neil Perry Gordon is the eldest son to Elaine and Walter Gordon. At the age of seven years old, Neil’s family moved from the Bronx, to the suburban community of Rockland County.

As serendipity would have it, the Green Meadow Waldorf School was located a mile from their home. Soon, Neil and his brother Craig and sister June were attending the innovative private school. Neil graduated as the first high school class in 1976.

Neil earned his Bachelor degree in Marketing from Pace University. Shortly after graduation in 1980, he moved to south Florida and started a drapery business. In 1990, he relocated back to New York and still operates his business, Decorating with Fabric. He has two adult sons, Samuel and Maximilian.

Neil has written two professional trade books. The first one, The Designer’s Coach, focuses on assisting designers in building a successful business. His most recent publication, An Architect’s Guide to Engineered Shading Solutions, instructs professionals on the techniques of implementing window coverings into their building projects.


A Cobbler’s Tale is Neil’s first work of fiction.

https://www.neilperrygordon.com/



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Jul 26, 20269 min
Born a Thread, Die a Fabric
The identities we weave—and what aging may ask us to loosen Penelope at the loom Saturday morning, I ran into a wise friend at the pâtisserie who shared a quote from a book he was reading. In The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric, John Scheid and Jesper Svenbro describe the individual as one “who is born a thread and dies a fabric.” We are born a thread. Then life begins weaving. We are given a name and placed within a family. Before we understand who we are, others are already...

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Jul 20, 20264 min
Are We Having a Waldorf Moment?
Cultivating Curiosity in the Age of AI The future will not belong to the child who can memorize the most. AI has already won that contest. Machines can summarize, calculate, organize, compare, draft, and explain. They are becoming very good at the tasks schools have traditionally rewarded. So the more urgent question is this: What remains human? Aravind Srinivas, CEO and co-founder of Perplexity, has argued that success in the AI age will depend not only on technical skill but on curiosity,...

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Jul 19, 20266 min
The Long Way Home
What The Odyssey Taught Me About Aging, Identity, and the Journey Back to Ourselves I first encountered The Odyssey as a teenager. What held me then were the fabulous adventures: strange islands, angry gods, temptresses, impossible creatures, violent seas, and a hero who survived whatever the world placed before him. It was the kind of story a young mind could enter completely. Odysseus sailed beyond the edge of the known world. Each new shore promised another danger, another wonder, another...

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