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Stomping My Ego: And Other Favorite Pastimes Of A Certain Bookstore Owner

The bookstore was an unchartered trove of literature, old and new. From classics to contemporary picks, books were piled on tables, filed in a maze of shelves, and stuffed into enough nooks and...

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Valentine’s Day Book Giveaway!

This Valentine’s Day, cupid will load his bow with a signed copy of I Thought We Agreed to Pee in the Ocean and aim it at some lucky reader out there. The humor collection was called, “Fiercely...

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Finding Myself On Buzzfeed

We’ve learned so much in 2014. We learned that Russia has a city that sounds like the name of a blonde telepathic waitress and vampire lover. We learned that Patrick Stewart is gay, and then we...

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Cut Down To Size

Happy New Year, cybersphere! I hope your last moments of 2014 were joyful. After I shot the champagne cork across the room and emptied half the bottle on the apartment floor (apparently I don’t know...

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The Public Cupping

My husband and I just spent a week in Texas, and while the experience lived up to some of my expectations of the Lone Star state (delicious Tex-mex, awesome live music, and hordes of young...

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Are Doctors Just Sweet Talking Us?

Some women have terrible taste in men. I know– I used to be one of those women. Then I married a perfectly lovely man, and that must have thrown the universe off-balance. It’s since righted itself; I...

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Graduation Swan Song: An Ode to Long Island

After five years of yearning, hoping, praying, and begging, we are finally wiggling free from the acrylic-tipped grasp of Long Island. And as we gear up for our next adventure, this time in the north...

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Why Tina Fey Should Be The New Face Of The Twenty-Dollar Bill

There are rumblings over Andrew Jackson’s impending termination as the face of our twenty-dollar bill, and I don’t blame America. I mean, as another Jackson so astutely questioned—what has he done for...

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The Killer Lambs: And Other Norwegian Truths

When we arrived in Norway, nobody told us to beware of the sheep. The fjord region of Norway is a magical land; a combination of Ireland’s rolling green hills, Switzerland’s picturesque red houses,...

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Why I Refuse To Get A Smartphone

At a bachelorette party earlier this year, I pulled out my mobile device: a hunk of a Verizon LG Cosmos slide dumb-phone with a two-inch display and a single megapixel camera. (Eat your heart out,...

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