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No Makeup Week
This post is written as part of a project called No Makeup Week, originated by Rachel Rabbit White. She’s encouraging bloggers to try going a week without makeup, and to write about their relationship...
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I am going to become a criminal sometime really soon
Homeschooling was a failure for me. I had suspected as much, but I didn’t realize it fully until just now, as I sat at the table, trying to write yet another thank you note. Bear and I turned out to...
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My new blog
I started another blog. I wanted to be able to write about education and homeschooling (the topic of a book I’m slowly but surely working on) without dividing this blog between that and body image...
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Getting hit on in college
This is a little story that makes me proud of myself. I only went to one party in college. It was a “welcome freshman” barbeque at the campus Hillel. (What could be more bangin’?) I don’t remember...
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the Tiger Mom talks
I saw Amy Chua, the Tiger Mom, last night at the 92nd Street Y. Actually, I ran into her on my way to the bathroom, before her talk started. I wasn’t positive it was her, but I had a feeling. She was...
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the toe hair story
I was eleven. I was at a slumber party. Remember those? It was for my friend Amy’s birthday. She’d invited a bunch of girls over, and there were going to be games and punch and cookies and sleeping...
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little victories: the kind of beauty that stands out in a crowd
I like to stand out. I like to be different. Writing the buzz cut piece reminded me. Well, getting the buzz cut reminded me. And then writing about it. For me, everything is two-pronged: the doing and...
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being friends with other people’s moms
Oh, and you should read my better beauty rules column over at The Frisky. When you get a chance, I mean. My friend was having a birthday party, and of course I didn’t want to go. I know people like...
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introverted woman in a tutu dress
My mom is really social. She’s probably a “connector,” or whatever. She started all these local groups when I was a kid. She started like ten book clubs and a science club and even a magic club, for...
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already smart enough, without even trying
This piece is a part of my Little Victories series. I don’t know the names of the parts of grammar. I remember “prepositional phrase” from this big purple book I had growing up. I remember that there...
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I don’t want to analyze my parents anymore
I was thinking about therapy the other day. My therapist and I have drifted apart over the past six months or so. We had been doing phone sessions, which was great because it allowed me to eat while...
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surprise
I tell myself and other people that I started writing about beauty and body image because I moved to NYC and stopped eating dessert and realized that I was trying to be thinner all the time, and...
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why i don’t like numbers
I have never liked numbers. Not even as a homeschooled kid, when my mom tried to trick me into enjoying math by introducing arithmetic in the form of fairies. (Plus was a happy fairy with a fat sack...
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the bed-sharing weirdos and other dangerous people like me
A friend shared the article on Facebook. It was about me, and how I’m irresponsible and dangerous and possibly a smidge un-American. How I make bad choices. Isn’t it crazy, how someone could be as...
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