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How To Be A Better Texter
I’m still working at getting better at replying to messages promptly. Here’s what I’ve tried so far.
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The Guilty Pleasure of Being Angry
On why despondency is annoying, and how we ought to inhabit a less-than-perfect world, especially online.
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“I’m Doing This for Me” and Other Beauty Industry Myths
On why we’re led to believe that we wear makeup for ‘ourselves’, examining choice feminism, accepting that humans will always love beauty, and a little mom-guilt on the side.
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The Performance of Beauty
Re-examining my relationship with beauty culture and accepting where I’m at right now – a confused participant.
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You might actually need people
Say no to self-indulgent self-care. Let’s challenge the notion that you need to focus on YOU, and cut everything and everyone out in order to become a better person.
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To err is human; to reflect, divine
Some year-end thoughts about the world we live in and whether / how we ought to DO SOMETHING about it.
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The vicinity of Christmas
On my made-up holiday tradition, and the fact that it’s impossible to exist in a passive way online.
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The Christmas Truce – “I ask that the guns may fall silent”
On a treasured, history-making moment at Christmas time in 1914, from the trenches of World War I. The Christmas Truce is something I’ll be thinking of a lot this season especially, as the world once again is in the ugly shadows of war at Christmas.
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Someone saw me take a selfie. HELP!
A deep-ish dive into why it’s so uncomfortable when someone catches you taking a selfie and how you might possibly recover. (Hint: You will never recover)
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World pain
On coping with the fact that our world will never live up to our expectations and will always, always carry a deep pain with it. And we carry that pain too – sometimes more heavily than other times. This is one of those times for me.
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Heavy heart seasons
On paying attention to pain and suffering in spite of not being able to do much else.
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Are you an asker or a guesser?
In 2007, the discussion of Ask Culture and Guess Culture gained prominence. However, I didn’t know about it. Rude. So here I am with an essay about it only like 16 years too late.