“What advice would you give teenage girls?” the host of the program asked.
I paused, the rhythm of our back-and-forth banter jolted. Thoughts raced through my head…
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“I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don’t relate to that at all.” - Drew Barrymore
Well, Ms. Barrymore, you caught me on a bad day…
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“I used to think that life was too short,” I said to my friend Taryn, “but I realized that actually, it’s too long. Life is too long, and too lonely and miserable, not to…”
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Some of you may remember this picture that I tweeted of myself just over a year ago. I wrote, “What a bad day of TMJ pain looks like: a moist heat pack wrapped around my jaw, loaded up on ibuprofen….”
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“Girls only get UTIs if they’re sluts.”
A guy actually said this to me once. His statement was so full of false judgment that I didn’t even bother to beg his pardon or respond…
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The last time I blogged about this topic, I wrote about the various forms of contraception out there and how I was trying to find alternatives to hormonal birth control…
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An Intro To A Series Of Health Posts (And a special message for the guys!)
My blog about birth control alternatives is one of the most read, most commented-on articles on my site. I’m grateful to all of you who take the time to read the various…
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Told you it was about to get heavy.
I’d like to open this post with a parable from Neale Donald Walsch’s “Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue.” I just completed the trilogy, and while…
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Since this blog is about to get fairly weighty, I thought I’d throw in a more uplifting post! I was having lunch with a friend a few days ago and we were talking about…
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Yesterday, I turned 27. (Yay!) As often happens for me around this time of year, I find myself contemplating the rabbit hole of astrology. I’ve never fully understood how…
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I’ve always firmly believed that invading someone else’s privacy is wrong. Reading their emails, searching their diaries, logging into their Facebook account, going through their texts…
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For my first post in 2013, I'd like to say welcome to the new domaine for my blog and hello to all my new fans and fellow ponderers! So excited you have found me, for here in the…
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“Do you see the fifth leg?” asked Bradley, our dry-humored safari guide. It only took milliseconds for us to find it. Goodness, how could we miss it? When Thirst Project does a donor trip…
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I awoke the morning of November 26th in Johannesburg, South Africa, surprised to see that the sun had already risen. It was 04:45, and I had to remind myself that I was near the bottom of the southern hemisphere.
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Few of us now need any introduction to the campaign that is Kony 2012. If, somehow, you’ve managed to miss the thirty-minute documentary that’s owned YouTube all week…
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The entertainment industry has made great strides for women as of late in terms of comedy, thanks to brilliant and hilarious ladies like Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman, and Mindy Kaling, among others… But where are the dramas?!
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This is a topic I broach with great trepidation, although I know I am not alone. There may be no more personal subject in the world than an individual’s decision to have a child or not…
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To have a baby, or not to have a baby? That is the anxious question.
Most of my LA girlfriends and I are in our mid-20s now. It’s starting to matter in primal ways…
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Sex is fun. It’s a way to wind down, wind up, release, gratify, invigorate, sedate, punish, validate, please, connect, play, comfort, elevate, and transform. Annnnnnnnd it makes babies. How terribly inconvenient…
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Rob and I regretfully checked out of Hotel La Villa on Monday morning. I’d milked the bathroom time I’d had left to style my hair, put on some mascara, and massage into my skin…
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