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Apr.28.2011
Like many other couples of their generation, Prince William and Kate Middleton have followed a recently popular pattern with their courtship. They met at school, dated a while, lived together, broke up, dated others, reconciled and finally decided to marry, probably with a little push from...
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Dec.29.2010
At one time in my life I was trying to learn new eating habits and came across the idea of affirmations for the first time. They sounded like a good idea: Just tell yourself several times a day that which you want to believe. The suggested affirmation was "I am a naturally thin person and I...
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Oct.13.2010
Two big celebrity breakups have hit the news since yesterday. Yikes! Let's examine the pieces: Courteney Cox and David Arquette wrote in a statement, "We have agreed to a trial separation that dates back for some time. The reason for this separation is to better understand ourselves and...
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Aug.07.2010
Someone who comments publicly on the private lives of others is usually called a gossip, or, when I was growing up, a "buttinsky". Is it different when I am invited to do the commenting? I hope so. The thing is, in my Ask Isadora advice column I receive requests from the individuals...
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Apr.28.2010
(Here's the beginning of a AOL PopEater piece from earlier this month in which I give my take on Tiger, Jesse, and all the rest and their stints in "sex rehab." You can read the rest here.)
With the recent onslaught of celeb infidelity, we've seen the term "sex rehab" slinking...
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Mar.26.2010
This may not be the last chapter of the mystery, but it is the latest. Bluebirds of Impossible Paradises is now out in paperback for real. You can find it at my website www.askisadora.com or on Amazon.com. It is the story of a straight woman's various relationships with several gay and bisexual...
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Jan.12.2010
The mystery of salable copies of a never published novel isn't solved but I do have the next chapter. Not only a chapter, but a complete book - an ebook. Amazon.com has published Bluebirds of Impossible Paradises: a Sexual Odyssey of the 70's as a Kindle book and it is now available, able to be...
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Jul.29.2009
My first book was a fictionalized version of my experiences with the revolutionary Training and work on the phone lines for San Francisco Sex Information - the odd assembly of folks who volunteer for such a job and the even odder assortment of folks who call in anonymously with their sex and...
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Jan.10.2008
Amazon.com lists for sale two copies of my novel Bluebirds of Impossible Paradise at prices hovering around $100 each. I'd happily pay that and more for a pristine bound copy. In fact, I've written so several times to the sellers listed there with no response. On the frontispiece of my own copy in...
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About Isadora
ISADORA ALMAN is a California licensed marriage and relationship therapist, a Board certified sexologist, author, and a syndicated sex and relationship columnist. Her Ask Isadora column has been running in alternative weekly papers worldwide for more than 25...
Causes Isadora Alman Supports
San Francisco Sex Information (www.sfsi.org) Planned Parenthood (...