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Reverent Agnostic, True Mystic, and a "Very Funny Lady."advice
Enneagram Advice
Take a deep breath. Ahhhh… The enneagram system is the one that can really get me right where it hurts- in all my most embarrassing and deep faults. ARG. While the Meyers-Briggs personality system makes me feel all sparkly and proud, the enneagram has me gritting my teeth and squinting my eyes as I read [...]
Advice from Married People
I just had lunch with two friends I usually enjoy. Out of nowhere, they started giving me advice. It went thusly: Marriage is hard. A lot of people just keep looking around for the perfect person. He isn’t going to come. It’s OK. I understand. We all have an idea of our perfect person, especially little girls, [...]
Advice to myself after Thanksgiving
I had one of those rolling around mornings where I woke up, laid in bed, started to think about getting up and then drifted back into dreaming. Rinse, repeat. Eventually when I was more awake, I started indulging in one of my bad habits which is imagining that I can go back in time and [...]
Yet another resource about how to live longer and happier
The author of the Blue Zone has studied long living populations around the world and now has advice for YOU online. The advice about living longer always says stuff like: have a close circle of loving and supportive friends and family, economic stability, close access to nature, and interesting work. OH BOTHER, close friends and [...]
Divorce: What do you think?
My mom is (very happily) married to her 4th husband, so even though I am single, I have seen a lot of different types of marriages up close and I feel that I am highly qualified to answer this question. (Just kidding, I think everyone is highly qualified to answer this question. That’s why I [...]
A rant about narrow Stories
Hi, My name is Braidwood and I can not stand books that are fundamentalist when it comes to gender. You know the ones, “The Rules”, “Men are from Mars, Women don’t have a penis.” (or something like that.) I have a couple friends right now who are really into a workshop that tells them all [...]
Make your Hair Story a Happy One
Women, please do not let anyone commoditize your beauty. Our beauty is being reduced and repackaged and sold back to us in a lesser form. What? Is the only way to protest not to care about how beautiful your beautiful self looks? No, do not bother with them enough to protest, flow like the river [...]
Inspired: Keri Smith
I pretty much love this woman. I saw her book The Guerrilla Art Kit in a store today, looked it up online to put on my wishlist, and then went to her blog. Once there, I realized that I had already seen her blog before, probably linked to from an Illustration site? She has awesome [...]
Ear ah Tahble
I had a great day. A good talk with a friend. Got lots done. Went to my Womyn’s group which I was really looking forward to, but while I was there, started feeling really IRR-A-TAble. I don’t know why. All I know is, I came home and looked at my netvibes page to take my [...]
In Defense of Food
My food resolution this year is simple: eat food. What else would I eat, you ask? Well, according to Michael Pollan in his book In Defense of Food, there is now a lot of edible non-food available in the grocery store. He writes about the history of food in America and how the idea of [...]
