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 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...
by Dahlia | Nov 29, 2013 | Journal
Yesterday, I saw a movie called The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In typical fashion, I had dragged my heels on seeing it in theaters, because I’m often lazy about that. And it had been on my Netflix queue for a while, but I’d sort of avoided it, because even though...
by Dahlia | Nov 20, 2013 | Journal
[As I go through massive change in my life at the moment, I am reminded of those other moments of massive change in my life, when I left NYC for Berlin, and then when I left Berlin for LA. I’m revisiting those changes partly out of nostalgia and partly as a way...
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