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Taylor Swift’s “mad woman” Alongside “The Yellow Wallpaper”

by Hattie

“What is the matter?” the narrator’s husband asks in one of the last paragraphs of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. It’s the first time he asks his wife what is wrong. But by that point, it’s too late. You see, no one likes a mad woman. And in the end of The Yellow Wallpaper (*spoilers*) our female narrator ends up quite...

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My Long Overdue Apology to Taylor Swift (that no one asked for but I still felt compelled to write)

by Hattie

All right, buckle up, it’s been over a year since I last posted and that last post was (you guessed it) also about Taylor Swift. I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but felt embarrassed/ashamed to write it. “All these people think love’s for show” I’ll try to keep it simple: Back in 2016 I developed a theory involving Taylor and...

September 4, 2020

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February 19, 2018

Talking About Dating Anxiety + Love on GROUP Podcast

When Rebecca Lee Douglas first reached out to me to ask if she could interview me for her podcast, GROUP,...

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October 4, 2016

Breaking Habits We Don’t Even Know We Have

In my suggested readings section of this site I mention the book “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg....

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You’re Not Alone if You Feel Nervous About Dating

Something really cool has happened over the past few years. I started this blog in 2013. It began as...

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I Hung Out With a Friend While He Tried to Work Up Courage to Tell a Girl She Was...

We hovered around him like buzzards surrounding a fresh carcass. “Just get in and get out,” Friend 1 shouted...

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Social Media Sometimes Makes Me Feel Miserable, So I Took a Break

Back in June I started to notice something every time I logged onto Twitter: it made me feel terrible....

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Why You Should Meet that Online Crush in Person Sooner Rather than Later

I was supposed to be working on my writing exercise. After telling myself I was going to attend a...

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Interview with Comedian Samantha Ruddy

If you haven’t heard of Samantha Ruddy yet you will soon enough. She is one of the funniest women...

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Rebuilding that Confidence like an OG

As I sat and read through more and more of my statuses from 4, 5, 6 years back I...

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