Today, I am moving to Boston. I will tell you – I am scared. So today, instead of allowing myself to stew in my fears, I’m going to participate in a little project wherein I just lay all of my fears out there, thereby getting them out of my head and my heart so that [...]
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Now, I know that y’all are freaking SICK of hearing about BlogHer this past weekend, but it was such a major personal learning experience for me that I feel as though I would be careless not to share it with you, particularly in regards to my last What IF Wednesday post about truly valuing myself [...]
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I spend much of my adult life looking for holes in my ever thickening atmosphere of comfort and safety, trying to figure out how to better insulate and support myself. I am the type of girl who needs serious continuity and stability. I need to know where my stuff is, how I’m going to get [...]
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I am generally a very fearful person. I grew up saying no automatically before I even considered the wonder and adventure of saying yes. For a period of time, from about six to eight I was awake. I would lie in bed, night after night terrified to roll over or shut my eyes paralyzed by [...]
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It has been that kind of day. The kind where you wake up and your throat hurts and you had dreams you had the spins or 125 whales were beached under hills of sand and you are grumpy and why won’t the coffee just make itself and you need a re-do, but there’s no time. Unfortunately I’ve [...]
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I told you that I was sorry and I wanted to mean it. I wanted to mean it in the real way, the I know what I did was fucked up and I won’t do it again way. Won’t. Not in the way that I had always known it to mean, the way in which [...]
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So last night, as I was patiently (?) awaiting sleep, I instead, for some very strange reason, found myself on the ugly doll webpage. Where I found myself playing a familiar game, you know, if I was an ugly doll which one would I be? And this seemed like a perfectly good use of time between [...]
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Last night I lay awake in bed as episode after episode of private practice passed on abc.com, unable to feel my completely exhausted body relax, and unable (perhaps due to the subject matter of my television choice, though it is a personal favorite) to stop thinking about having to go to the doctor in the morning. My [...]
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This week I have loved both of these things in equal measure. I watched V for Vendetta three times, the first two times having to stop short of the end, only to restart it with someone else and have to watch it from the beginning again. And this was my favorite part: Simple, I know, [...]
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