A NO has energy; you have no choice about that. What you get to choose is how that energy will be directed onto the remains of your tortured soul.
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How to Take Advantage of Black Friday Fashion Deals After Age 35
Simply arrive at the mall and come to the slow and certain conclusion, store by store, that you can no longer have nice things.
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5 Takeaways from Putting My Kids in Karate
Kids are capable of a lot more than we think they are, including paying rapt attention to an adult who is not their mother and who knows how to use nunchucks.
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6 Ways to Mourn the End of Martha Stewart Living
Let us celebrate the legacy of Martha Stewart Living as it would have wanted—with six domestic upgrades that are as unattainable as they are aesthetically pleasing. God rest its fabulous soul.
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3 Things to Know About Redheaded History
If you don’t end up picking up a copy, at least you can be nicer to the redheads in your life, okay? We’ve been going through it for most of human history.
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Maybe I Don’t Want a Happy Fall Y’all
You know the font I’m talking about. The HAPPY FALL Y’ALL one. With the irregular lean and the swirly, pumpkin-vine tendrils for end serifs.
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Non-victory Victories
So no, I don’t have an agent or a publisher, but behold! I’ve done a bunch of things I didn’t think I could, and those are still victories.
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You’re Already Doing Hard Things
“You’re already doing hard things,” my therapist tells me. Over and over. That’s because my unchecked thoughts tend toward catastrophe.
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Do You Wanna Build a Newsletter?
Maybe you’re trying to cut back on social media, or maybe you’re not. Either way, I feel gross asking others to meet me on Facebook while I’m chewing my arm off trying to leave it myself.
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Backstreet Boys and Concert Bros
Some of my warmest memories are of the overwhelming female energy of 2010s BSB concerts, when we’d all aged out of competing with one another but not out of knowing the songs off of the German import album.
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