Women Who Rock – Fabulous Five – Black History Month
With this “Women Who Rock“ post becoming a weekly thing, I decided that I wanted to honor Black History Month by focusing on a different Black female music artist each week. The problem is that there are only four Fridays in February and I just could not narrow it down to only four ladies. (Obviously, I’ve got the whole year to …
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Discussion Link: Cursing Isn’t Ladylike? F*&$ That!
A Catholic high school in New Jersey made the news recently for having its students take a pledge in which they promised not to swear at school during the month of February. Correction, the female students had to take the pledge; male students were exempt and instead were merely asked not to curse in front of the girls. Because cussin’ ain’t …
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Stepping Up Your Polish Game
And by “polish,” I mean for the nails, as opposed to tips on picking up Polish people. That is a WHOLE other article.
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Five Card Draw
Writing a blog about size acceptance, size diversity, and struggling with feelings about food, weight, and body image is like leaving your house to mail a letter and finding yourself taking unexpected detours along the way. Eventually the letter gets mailed but what could have been a five-minute walk around the block frequently turns in to a three-hour tour.
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The Broken Bird: On Editing Your Past to be More “Loveable”
Valentine’s Day is in less than a week, and I’m sure we’ve all seen the advertisements. The jewelry, the chocolates, the movies. There are a few movies being released especially on Valentine’s Day, and this year one of those movies is Safe Haven, which features a young woman with a “dark past” who seeks refuge in the arms of a …
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Anthropologie: You Are Drunk
No matter how you feel about Anthropologie’s selection of cute dresses and whimsical decor, you’ve probably thought the store was drunk at some point. Here’s where Anthro had a little too much to drink before selling stuff.
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Recap: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” S4.E1 — “The Freshman”
“Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?”
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Classic Woman-centric Movie Review: “Anne of the Thousand Days”
Last week’s movie pick featured a film about Elizabeth I, and this week’s follows up with a film about her mother, Anne Boleyn. “Anne of the Thousand Days,” released in 1969, stars Richard Burton as Henry VIII and Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn and is based on the play by Maxwell Anderson.
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Thursday Night Dance Party OT
Tonight’s selection is brought to you by the one, the only, the fabulous Purple One.
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An Expat Goes Home
On February 25, my teaching contract in South Korea ends. On February 26, I’ll be on a flight to Tokyo to spend two days there (because in case you didn’t know, Tokyo is expensive and even two days can drain the bank account) before flying to Denver to stay with my sister for a week and a half. Then on …
Read MoreEtiquette: Indelicate Dining
“To me, food is supposed to be about happiness, so I don’t really care what you do.” This line from my date stopped me in my tracks. There we were, eating a fancy dinner at a fancy place where we were clearly the oddballs, and I was trying to laugh off my inability to eat mussels in a neat and tidy way.
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True Perspectives, or To Each His Own
Standing inside the main dining room in Windsor Castle, we stared in awe at a dining room table that must have been 30 feet long at least.
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What Happens When You Look Like a Celebrity?
Last week, my friend met a guy who she instantly clicked with. I was happy for her, since her last break up had been a pretty rough one, and was excited that she was excited. Because I am a visual person, I told her to pull up a photo of him on Facebook so I could put a face to …
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Best of Etsy: Valentine’s Day Cards
Since Valentine’s Day is a a week away, I scoured the internet (read: fell down an Etsy hole) looking for the best Valentine’s Day cards. Here are my finds.
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Lunchtime Poll 2/8/13: Two Truths and a Lie
By [E] Selena MacIntosh On 02-8-2013 30 Comments
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.
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