Being vulnerable sucks. There are few instances I can think of where putting myself out there, exposing my needs or weaknesses or fears to someone…
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When someone utters the term “Ivy League”, images of Harvard scholars and Yale alumni strolling across a leaf-covered campus in the autumn immediately come to…
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Apparently Nabisco has just wrapped up a two-month run with their “Cookie Dough” Oreo, which seems as grotesquely redundant as obesity-riddled America would presently demand.…
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all I see is cubes. Just last week, Seattle-based retail mogul Amazon.com Inc. announced that Walt Disney Studios’ animated feature Frozen, released last November,…
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There has been a great amount of praise and criticism for a certain female artist’s recent voice in feminism. I’ll give you a hint—her name…
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Writers are often referred to as “starving artists,” lumped into the category with aspiring musicians, actors and so forth. And though it’s true some may struggle…
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The Secret came out when I was 22, just a young and impressionable girl in the throws of a very fickle career in the modeling…
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When Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook) very publicly encouraged women everywhere to Lean In, and published subsequent book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, it…
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Not that you’d be able to tell from the insane weather fluctuations that have been gripping the country (and L.A. specifically) as of late, but…
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In what sounds like a sequel to or knockoff of The Hunger Games, the Invictus Games actually do exist, and they’re not some Romanesque gladiator-type…
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You’ve probably seen them on your Facebook newsfeed. You know, those photos of a gaggle of girls posing with canvases that are of a heart…
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I write to you from the edge of my twenties, my last week before I hit the big 3-0, Monday, March 24th. As a kid,…
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