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Apr.27.2012
For about four years now, I've kept an account on Facebook. It's been good; I've generally enjoyed my time spent on the site. I've reconnected with old friends, sold books and directed readers over to my Huffington Post essays. I've seen the engagement announcements of my friends, read...
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Apr.12.2012
Featured in Divorce, on Huffington Post.
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He turned to me and said something I will never forget. "I'm afraid to kiss you." I asked him why and he explained that he cherished our friendship so much and feared that if we took it to a different level, we might end up losing...
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Mar.21.2012
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"We all relate to certain universal concepts in nature. And for millions and millions of people, the word God has what is called, "a universal" meaning. God means so much to so many people. As a principle, God is the mystical basis on which faith is based upon; as a path, God is a road...
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Mar.13.2012
A few days ago, I was told something that was so insulting, so unbelievably insensitive -- that my ego literally popped. The insult was vile on it's own, but the idea that a person would say something so potentially damaging to another was beyond me. Somehow, I immediately knew that it wasn't...
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Feb.09.2012
How on earth could I relate to a character like Maximus? Was I a general who became a slave who became a gladiator who came back to give an ass whoopin' to the Emperor of Rome? Hell no. I was just Dori -- a married woman with a two year old child, living in a nice home in suburban New Jersey....
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Jan.26.2012
“…We are now pirates, gurus, authors, bloggers, thieves, anonymous, hackers, students, victims of fraud, angry verbal mobs or singular voices of reason. We provoke response with our videos and we recycle information as if it were our own original thought. We are rebels looking for a cause and...
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Dec.21.2011
Religion was cool enough; it came with lots of mysterious metaphor and in many cases, incredibly gorgeous artwork. The poetry, mathematics and art of religion enchanted me, and because I was willing to enlist the power of my imagination, I felt that, with enough faith in the path, I could...
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Nov.09.2011
Almost everyone can agree that the word "love" is jam-packed with power and meaningful emotion, but what I find most curious is how we deal with it when it's sandwiched in between the words, "I" and "you," as in, "I love you."
Loving someone works well as a concept; it's a private moment that...
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Oct.26.2011
There must have been a zillion reasons as to why my mother and I stopped speaking to each other, but if you ask me now what any of those reasons were, I wouldn't be able to tell you. Not because I don't remember, but because I'm tired of remembering only the crap. And more importantly, I don't...
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Oct.15.2011
The Wish by Dori Hartley, copyright 2011
CHAPTER ONE
Gretchen Dougherty, sloppy on tequila and tears, stumbled her way through her high-rise luxury apartment, and out onto the rain-soaked balcony. Getting a good dose of fresh air was not what the weep-weary woman needed, nor would a brisk slap...
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Oct.11.2011
This past week, we got to see the media's sweeping version of Occupy, which basically read like a vignette out of the movie, "Hair." You can already imagine the orchestra warming up to present the overture for "Occupy: The Musical!" on Broadway. This is the picture that was painted for us:...
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Oct.10.2011
Medical research is all about percentages and probable outcomes. The numbers can inform us, but more often they are scary or confusing. Reading that 50% of all people react well to a certain drug, or that the mortality rate of a select group is 38% isn't comforting to someone who is...
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Oct.07.2011
My first post in the politics section of the Huffington Post.
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" -- Howard Beale, in 'Network'.
Right now, during this particular phase in history, we are watching the word "occupy" transform in definition from it's original "to fill up space...
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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.29.2011
This week new research released by the University of Leicester found that more than 200,000 people in the U.K. have been victims of online romance scams, according to EScienceNews.
The online study showed that 52 percent of those surveyed knew of "romance fraud," and one in every 50 online adults (...
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About Dori
Dori Hartley is a native New Yorker, a writer, illustrator, actor and musician. She started her writing career as a lyricist, penning tunes for Tears For Fears and The Goo Goo Dolls. Her lyrics inspired the writers of the HBO series, "The Sopranos," to...
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