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Writing used to be the best way for me to fight off my demons and work through my feelings. For a while, things were too intense, and I wasn't even able to write about them... I was just trying...
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It's the most romantic, yet completely irritating quote from one of my favorite movies... William spies his lady love for the very first time and is bewitched... high on love, he's soaring, until his...
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At 25, my brother had been married three years. My mother was a newlywed, after finally settling down with her third fiance...
And here I am, party of one. (Not that I'm beating myself up over it,...
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I thank God for putting Cory Bordonaro in my path. For those who can't put a face with a name, you've read and admired her work in print as the editor of skirt! Birmingham, and you've enjoyed...
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"Dreamer: one who lives in a world of fancy and imagination; one who has ideas or conceives projects regarded as impractical" Webster's English Dictionary
For the most part, my...
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I arrogantly never thought I cared much about money... I'd much rather pay my own tab than have some random bar guy foot the bill, and my lingerie drawer is overflowing with ...
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Soulmates... I spent many a slumber party flat on my back in an army green Coleman sleeping bag, going head to head with my BFFs over these elusive men. We ALL believed... believed "The One...
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I was at the beach the first time I heard it... "He used to call me his 'mon petit chou,'" she mused, her unfixed eyes on the ocean, her white skin pinkening under the Caribbean...
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“He says very funny things sometimes, doesn’t he?” said Luna... “But he can be a bit unkind...” Luna was demonstrating her usual knack of speaking uncomfortable truths; he had never met anyone quite...
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If you have ever witnessed the mayhem and insanity that is the Tyra Banks show, or have shamelessly spent countless hours watching America’s Next Top Model marathons on Oxygen, then this is not to be...
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It would seem the two of us are out of sync politically, socially, spiritually (and in our use of hairspray,) but I can’t help but shout, “LEAVE MISS CALIFORNIA ALONE!!!”
Why would I, a...
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“She knew it was too late for her... but this grandmother from Alabama kept on fighting, because she was thinking about the next generation. It’s what we’ve always done in America- set our sights...
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My mother took my hand and pressed it into her sweaty palm. She leaned toward me, curving her arm around my shoulders, then she quietly turned her mouth to my hair. I could tell she was crying...
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It's supposed to be a comforting balm, "Time heals all wounds." My parents would murmer it, softly, as they held me, when I was a child. At the time, I had thought myself an adult, so evolved... and...
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I’m making a conscious effort to stop swearing, and to quit obsessing over events/people of the past that bring me down when I so choose to obsess over them. (My success has been limited at best.)...
