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refuse feedback (when you need to) and it will set you free
in defense of an occasionally closed comment section, paywalling the personal and the difference between resilience and bravery, unlikability and hate.
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Rebecca Woolf
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when you know better but do it anyway
the only feeling lonelier than being in a room with someone you love and aren't supposed to, are the days spent afterward, knowing how bad you want to…
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Rebecca Woolf
"and the feet broke free..."
on one-way tickets home and walks through the rain between freeways
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Rebecca Woolf
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August 2023
In Transition and Through Chaos, We Sing
A love letter to Miceli's Hollywood, the cacophony of life and my son who leaves for college tomorrow. (there's such a lot of world to see.)
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Rebecca Woolf
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what it means to survive, a guest post by Amanda Montei
"you could've died," my mother said and I wasn't sure if she meant from the drinking or from the men
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Rebecca Woolf
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Amanda Montei
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Sext, Lies and Do Not Disturb Mode
when you don't know you're "the other woman" are you?
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Rebecca Woolf
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Season's Greetings from my Covid Lair
After 3.5 years, Corona finally got me, that saucy little minx
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Rebecca Woolf
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July 2023
Style, Break-up-Style
on moving forward by dressing like yourself
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Sophie Strauss
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Rebecca Woolf
This Barbie... is afraid to hurt Ken's Feelings. Until She's not.
When a woman is afraid to hurt a man's feelings, she does both men AND women a disservice. So how do we stop coddling men when we are afraid not to? We…
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Rebecca Woolf
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a prayer for a little less chaos, maybe
A post about the time I got sued when my husband was dying and had to go to trial -- five years later -- the week my son graduated from high school
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Rebecca Woolf
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on autonomous women and the men who "love" them, then lose their minds when they can't pin them behind glass like butterflies
Demanding partner #1 relinquish their autonomy in order to coddle partner #2's insecurities is not “setting boundaries" and we need to talk about the…
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Rebecca Woolf
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June 2023
Two Birthdays, Four Graduations, One Funeral and a Wedding in the Woods.
a month of transitions forces area woman to reckon with her own
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Rebecca Woolf
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