baller

Analyze: My Transgressive Sex Fantasies Are Either About My Actual Husband or No-Touch Clintonian Monogamy

If you are related to me by blood or marriage, this isn't for you. Otherwise, enjoy the details of my real life sex fantasies!
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Sex, Sex, Sex ... and Love, baller, boundaries, can't touch this, fantasies, husbands, love, marriage, orgasms, sex, strangers, wives

May 25, 2012 at 9:30am | 42 comments

crafty

3 Easy Ways to Fancy Up Some Xmas Lights Because Every Day Should Be a Magical Party

Take $5.99 string lights, add clear blue plastic disposable shot glasses or Dixie Cups or vintage tin Jell-O molds and make like Eddie Murphy's girl in 1985 and party all the time.
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DIY, crafty, disposable cups are DYI supplies, drills, DYI, home decor, party everyday, She-Hulk Handywoman, string lights

May 14, 2012 at 12:30pm | 50 comments

$.70

What I Learned About Women from Thrifted Joke Book “A Delicious Collection of Jokes for Women Only”

Knock knock. Who’s there? You. You who? Yoo-hoo, I’m in line at Goodwill paying 70 cents for this sexist joke book.
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Fun, $.70, 1990, joke books, sexism, Shenandoah Press, Susan Savannah, thrifting, women vs. men

May 9, 2012 at 12:30pm | 58 comments

age anxiety

It Sucks to Say This Out Loud, But What Should I do Before I Turn Forty?

What is turning forty going to mean to me?
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Relationships, age anxiety, babies, big birthdays, bucket list, ham radio, milestones, The Big 4-BARF, woman-child

May 4, 2012 at 9:00am | 131 comments

buy stuff

Buy Handmade: Etsy Mother's Day Shopping Guide Under $50

All the moms you know will think you are so thoughtful (and good-looking) when they open these indie gifts.
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Fun, buy stuff, love your mommy, moms, shoppables, shopping, support indie makers

May 2, 2012 at 12:30pm | 39 comments

classic illustrators

Customize Your Clothes With Fake Embroidery

Guess what? You don't have to actually learn how to embroider to stitch cool designs on your stuff. Fake it. Think of it as drawing with needles and thread.
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DIY, classic illustrators, customize yr clothes, embellish, faking stuff, hand-sewing, needle, pretend you know what you're doing, thread

Apr 30, 2012 at 6:00pm | 35 comments

bagels

I’ll Try Anything Once: Let a Magic 8-Ball Make My Decisions for One Day

What would my life look like if I left all the decisions I would normally make on my own up to the affirmative, negative, or non-committal roll of the icosahedral die?
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Fun, bagels, brooklyn, cake, dares, fate, Fun, parties, self will

Apr 26, 2012 at 9:00am | 50 comments

clean things are nice

I Have Horrible Guilt & Discomfort About Not Being Able to Keep My Own House

Why do I feel like a failure hiring a cleaning person? Heteronormative brainwashing? Have I not shaken the paranoid drug-house privacy thing?
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Family Drama, clean things are nice, home, married people, slobs, too many emotions

Apr 19, 2012 at 10:00am | 146 comments

adult problems

Your Help Needed: How Do I Make Friends and Learn to Be a Good Friend as an Adult?

So what happens if because of a series of lifestyle and geographical changes, you find yourself in your late 30s desperately in need of the magical ability to make new friends? Or any friends?
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Relationships, adult problems, dear readers, friendless, friends, help, I was wasted until my early 30's, I'm awkward

Apr 12, 2012 at 9:00am | 346 comments

coming-of-age

Nostalgia Reality Check: Girl-Centric Coming-of-Age Film "FOXES"

I’m a Jeanie, I intuit other Jeanies and we are Annie-magnets. We long for the innocence of the Madges and the brass ovaries of the Deirdres.
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Entertainment, coming-of-age, drugs, friends, girl gangs, girl-centric, growing up, Me Generation parents, movies, rock & roll, sex, teens

Mar 28, 2012 at 12:00pm | 31 comments