February 2010

Minutes

There are minutes–neatly spaced between fun-filled seconds and productive hours–when it physically hurts to be alone. I know this because I feel it. First it comes as a breathless, stabbing pain in my chest. Then it descends to my gut as if I’ve just been pushed out from an airplane without a parachute. It is [...]

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Need

For some obscure reason, I recently spent an hour of therapy time discussing marriage.  Upon establishing that I am–in fact–pro marriage my therapist informed me that statistically speaking marriages produce happy husbands and bitter wives. She explained that this is almost always created because the average women my age believes that marriage will fulfill all [...]

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Presence

Dear Future Man Friend, I’m sorry that I’m writing to you twice in such a short time span, but its been a surreal week and I feel like I need to talk to you. When I say need please don’t freak out and jump out of a moving vehicle to get away from me. I [...]

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Wanted

Today I’m guest blogging for the very awesome Ashalah. Here’s an excerpt to wet your appetite. ‘As a school girl of nine years old I would get more excited about Valentine’s Day than any other day of the year.  Would this year be the year that I get a card from a secret admirer? This [...]

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Restlessness

Dear Future Man Friend, I’ve been feeling restless lately. I’ve been lying in bed for far longer than is healthy. I am frustrated. I want to hang on the hands of a gigantic clock and I want to pump my legs–with all the strength I have–and swing. I want to swing and swing–round and round–until [...]

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Blog Scam Awareness Day

In collaboration with a number of other bloggers, we have declared today as Blog Scam Awareness Day. Last year I wrote a detailed post about my personal experience with a particularly popular blog designer. You can read the full post here. Since then, that post is consistently the most viewed post on Hope Dies Last. [...]

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