i’m reading a book right now and the person is chronicling her journey in recovery. the more i was reading, the more i thought, man, she seems really judgmental of everyone. then i thought, adia, aren’t you judging her?
um, yeah. oops.
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Dec
28
judging a judger
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Dec
05
not all black girls know how to eat, pt. 2
okay. the moment i’ve been dreading has arrived. stephanie is going to start talking about her eating disorder. i’m apprehensive and hope she doesn’t go into certain behaviors too much. already, i can feel myself feeling sad for her, for her experience.
okay, time to take the plunge…
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Jul
25
duplicate book beginnings
i started writing the introduction to my eating disorder book about seven years ago. mind you, i hadn’t started organizing my writing at all, and I had more than half to write still, but i wanted to tackle the into. i’d come up with a book title and an opening sentence that i thought were brilliant. i used that to delve into the rest of the introduction. i wrote, refined, wrote, refined, wrote and refined some more. imagine my shock when a couple years later, someone published a book with a very similar title. ( Read more )
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Jun
10
do i have that issue too??
there’s this term that’s referred to* when you start working in a medical field, find out symptoms of a disease, and start thinking that you might have that disease. working at a psychology/self-help company, when i first got here and listened to books being pitched, i’d find myself thinking, do i have that too?
clearly, as you can tell from my pieces, i have a few issues (don’t we all?) and feel pretty in touch with them, but that didn’t keep me from thinking, hmm, did i miss the ball with issues x,y,z?
the past two days, we’ve been discussing all of the new books for spring 2011, and it was refreshing to notice that i wasn’t internalizing a number of issues and wondering if i had them. ( Read more )
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Sep
28
mackenzie phillips
i’ve paid attention to this story about mackenzie phillips and her revelations on the oprah winfrey show. i’m thinking of buying her new book, high on arrival, but i might need to hold off for awhile.
before i get to the present, let me go back a little bit. ( Read more )
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Sep
05
just finished reading ‘purge’
just finished reading ‘purge: rehab diaries’ by nicole johns. i’m going to start working on a review now.
one thing i know is that it won’t be the typical professional review that’s found in many places. try as i might to keep it that objective or something like that, this review is going to include my own experiences and feelings that were evoked by reading this.
ok, let me stop talking about writing and actually get down to writing.
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Aug
30
favorite childhood author
i don’t remember my favorite childhood author. that’s a good thing. actually, that’s probably a great thing. when i was at my parents’ house not too long ago, i saw the sea-green-colored spine of are you my mother and thought, ‘ah, sometime around there, the good times began.’ or that would be my assumption. for all i know, good times began three years before then.
i can remember some of my favorite books from when i was young-young, and then i can remember books i liked in early elementary school, later elementary school, junior high… which book was my favorite, though, or who was my favorite author is one answer i don’t have.
and that’s a good thing.
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