August 2009 - Posts
Lately women are being told to declare themselves beautiful. Dove products, for example, sponsor a program in which girls stand on a stage and declare themselves beautiful.
On makeover shows, women are told to look into mirrors and say, "I
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I am a vintage movie maniac. No, that's not quite right. Asleep, I could be considered merely a maniac. Awake, I should be arrested.
When Frank Sinatra died, I received a dozen sympathy cards. I'm not kidding. Before the
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Before I knew what child sexual abuse was, I knew that something terrible had happened to my friend Vicky. We met when we were 13, and she ended our friendship 35 years later.
Thanks to the more open national discussion about child sexual abuse,
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Something romantic happened to me recently - for the first time in a long time.
It started last March, when my husband was advised to have a rather brutal cancer surgery. Without it, he was told, he had no more than six months to live.
My husband
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