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Author Archives: linabranter
SEX:An Annotated Biographical Bibliography
This might come as a shocker, but this post was very hard for me to write. I spent most of my life not even talking about sex, let alone writing about it publicly. So why? Why put myself out there … Continue reading
Posted in A Day in the Life, Books, Personal blog
Tagged Annotated Bibliography, Hellish year, Sex, Sexuality education
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Help
Right now I am sitting in the back of my mother’s garden beside my garden gnome shed where I have been living for just over a year. Inside the shed are a bunch of empty boxes, waiting to be filled … Continue reading
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Hell Years: Introduction to an Annotated Bibliography
Reading. Reading is my comfort, my addiction, my solace. For most of my life I have been able to get lost in a book. Get lost in a book. I never really thought about that phrase before, what it means. … Continue reading
Posted in A Day in the Life, Books, Inspiration, Personal blog
Tagged Annotated Bibliography, Hellish year
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You Only Meet Yourself
It is strange how things come into your life when you most need them. I made a friend recently. We met at a social networking event. The room was crowded and noisy and you had to yell to be … Continue reading
Posted in A Day in the Life, Inspiration, Parenting Confessions, Personal blog
Tagged Death, Grief, random thoughts, sister
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Grief is the Pain from a Phantom Limb
Last week the building where J and I first lived as a couple, our first apartment, suffered a fire. We lived there for two years, from right before our marriage to right after the birth of our daughter. We moved … Continue reading
Midlife Crisis, Part 1: On Freedom and its MidLife Mythology
I have recently experienced my ex-spouse, my friends, the husbands of my friends, essentially many of the men I know who are in their forties (not all of them, of course, but too many to ignore), express a wistfulness, a … Continue reading
Posted in A Day in the Life, Personal blog
Tagged Atul Gawande, Freedom, midlife crisis, Viktor Frankl
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New Year’s Resolution #1: Boycotting the Monkey Exchange
My motto for this coming year: Not my circus, not my monkeys. There is nothing we humans like more than to surreptitiously gift our monkeys to someone, and taking on other people’s monkeys can become second nature if we don’t … Continue reading
