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We’re working on our July issue now (theme: “The F-Word: Feminism & Fashion), so I’ve been doing more thinking than usual about my own feminist ideals. I don’t want to get into a lengthy diatribe...
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A friend recently blogged about Donna Wilkinson’s book, The Only 127 Things You Need: A Guide to Life’s Essentials, and it got me thinking about the things that I need. The book has things like: 8...
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One of the very creative editors at Make it Mine magazine sent us a lovely note with the latest issue to let us know they featured skirt! in their “Stuff We Love” section. We’re blushing! Read more...
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Twittering. I’m a twitterbug, a tweeter. I can’t resist narrating my life, navel-gazer that I am. I found Twitter a while ago and dismissed it with a “dear god could the internets get any weirder?”...
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A friend sent me this link earlier today – it’s for a ring that serves as a “proud declaration of your singlehood.” I love being single, but haven’t really felt the urge to celebrate it. Nor have I...
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While listening to NPR this weekend, I found out that one of my favorite authors, Kate Christensen, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her latest book, The Great Man. She is only the ...
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Like most people, I have a tendency to internalize stress and use quick fixes (martinis, anti-anxiety medication) instead of working out the tension. About a year ago, I started keeping a working...
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This is spray painted on the sidewalk near my office and I passed by it on my way back from a lunch meeting yesterday.
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Is having to decide between necessities and other necessities. I was lucky as a college student that I also had a full-time job with benefits, therefore I didn’t have to decide between paying for my...
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I spend a lot of my weeks being social – mostly for work, sometimes to maintain my friendships – and therefore spend a lot of weekends doing what I call “hiding out.”
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OK, not really – I have plenty of friends who could fill those royal shoes better than I can. But I’m a writer and editor for a living (and writer and reader and amateur editor before I got paid for...
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Even though a lot of my writing is done on a computer keyboard, I haven’t been without a paper notebook since before I can remember.
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If I had to make a top 10 list of Things at Which I Do Not Excel, positivity would be somewhere between #4: Flirting and #7: Math. I really have to work at being positive the majority of the time...
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One of my favorite creative inspiration books is No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason (also the creator of one of my regular blog reads, MightyGirl)....
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I love this time of year – it’s not too cold and not too hot, and it makes me want to clear out the clutter. Spring cleaning is good for the soul. This year, I have lots of now-too-large clothing...
