by Dahlia | Jan 14, 2014 | Journal
One of my readers wrote in recently with this query: What’s your stance on friend’s with benefits? Yay or nay? I’ve done it twice in my late 20s and ended up getting emotionally attached after doing the deed. This led to heartache (on my part) and...
by Dahlia | Jan 1, 2014 | Journal
It’s not that I don’t like resolutions. I think resolutions are great. I make them on a regular basis. I’m all about self-improvement and transformation, recognizing your faults and actively working to change them. What I’ve never been a fan of are New Year’s...
by Dahlia | Dec 13, 2013 | Journal
I just read this article advocating self-publishing, “Why Writers Must Self-Publish Their Books,” and I have to say that I agree with several points. The most cheerful one is that self-publishing is liberating. You can publish what you want, when you want...
by Dahlia | Dec 13, 2013 | Journal
I recently received an email from a reader sharing the story of the worst breakup of her life. Her story was long, complex, and painful, but several aspects of her story resonated with me, and I would imagine with many women, so I’m sharing them below. “…I was...
by Dahlia | Dec 9, 2013 | Journal
So there’s this thing that everyone else seems to think is okay, which makes me feel like I’m a bitch because it bugs me, but I suspect that it actually bugs other people, we’ve just gotten so used to it that we don’t think to complain.When I...
by Dahlia | Dec 6, 2013 | Journal
During my first term at UCLA, I had the privilege of taking a class with Howard Suber. For anyone interested in how stories are told –be they in books or on the big screen — or merely in human nature and the patterns of human behavior, his perspective is...
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