by Dahlia | Sep 17, 2014 | Journal
The typical response to public incidents of domestic violence, like the recent elevator one with Ray Rice and Janay Palmer or the older one between Rihanna and Chris Brown, is often shock and confusion. Why won’t she leave him? Why does she put up with it? Most...
by Dahlia | Jun 27, 2014 | Journal
Those who know me (or, to be more accurate, those who have tried to get to know me) know that I describe myself as a porcupine. I am full of bristles, ready to spear the reckless and over-eager hand. I do not take well to intimacy. I do not do well with vulnerability....
by Dahlia | Feb 27, 2014 | Journal
I recently received this letter from one of my readers: I haven’t had much success with men and, the majority of the time, I thought it was them. Granted, there were several men who were legitimate assholes that deserved to be dismissed. However, there were...
by Dahlia | Feb 13, 2014 | Journal
Love is a peculiar thing. So many people want it, so many people crave it, so many write about it and sing about it and commodify it—and yet it remains elusive, hard to find while also seemingly everywhere. There is the love between mother and child, between pet and...
by Dahlia | Jan 26, 2014 | Journal
When you start dating someone, everyone always warns you about red flags. Watch out for the red flags, they say, in that condescendingly cautionary tone. So what are red flags? Red flags are those little things someone does that signal huge problems lurking just under...
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