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Oct.19.2011
It’s National Love Your Body Day, the day in which girls and women are invited to reject the media hype about how we are supposed to look -- and embrace ourselves with all our lumps, bumps, scars, and flaws.
I love my body, and its every aspect, from head to callused toes.
My...
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Oct.14.2011
If you were asked the question: What three qualities supported you to get where you are in your career today? What would be your answer? That can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Choosing only three factors, when there are likely many, can be tough. That's what I was asked to do as part...
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Oct.12.2011
"Why do they call it sleeping together? I mean, who, exactly is 'sleeping' ?" --Cate Hart, Comedy Club in L.A.
Ah, so true. The phrase is just a polite way of saying that you're having a sexual relationship and no one is actually sleeping! But what about sleeping, really sleeping, with someone else...
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Oct.12.2011
"Why do they call it sleeping together? I mean, who, exactly is 'sleeping' ?" --Cate Hart, Comedy Club in L.A.
Ah, so true. The phrase is just a polite way of saying that you're having a sexual relationship and no one is actually sleeping! But what about sleeping, really sleeping, with someone else...
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Oct.11.2011
This video contains a very important message about women. Please watch it.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2349117563337
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Oct.11.2011
The funny thing about the universe is its impeccable timing....
Never once has the universe ever let me slide through on a test of self.
For the past several days I've hesitated making a decision I knew was best for me and the project I was working on because I wanted everybody to like me.
Now I...
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Oct.05.2011
Ten years ago, when I was told that I was going to have to lose my right breast to cancer, my first thought was, "At least it's not my arm." Losing a body part is -- to say the least -- emotionally devastating, but to know that your only other option is death, well, that scenario is enough of a...
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Sep.30.2011
In this photo showing three generations of Conforti women on a boat, I am the one on the far left. See that girl in the large, dark sunglasses that are supposed to make her look like Jackie Onassis? That’s me. It was the early ‘90s, and I was a desperate, needy, insecure college student who had...
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Sep.29.2011
Went shoe shopping with my spouse the past couple days. She likes DSW and subscribes to their newsletter. Zappos is another place high on her list.
I shopped for shoes for myself, something casual for winter walking. I walk a few miles every day so I go through shoes. My current winter walkers have...
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Sep.23.2011
Note to readers: This is the sixth in a series of blogs I am delighted to be writing for Harmony: The WomenArts Partnership Project. They will appear biweekly on the WomenArts site (when you get there, scroll down for a list of blog installments), and I will also reproduce each one here.
This...
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