From the category archives:

helping people

Shut it and listen

July 1, 2009

I don’t do well with unsolicited advice. Maybe because I grew up with a control-freak, who told me how I should do everything (and still does), even when I’m already doing it and I have been doing it and I know how to do it, damn it.
Maybe because I know that we don’t all think [...]

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Lean on me. I think.

May 8, 2009

We live in the real world. It’s no fairy tale. In real life, sometimes things get tough. And sometimes when things get tough we take it out on the wrong person, lash out at someone we like and care for. And sometimes, we are that someone. We are the ones being used as scape goat, [...]

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I'm not an island. And neither are you.

April 10, 2009

Today I started a new blog. It’s not for me and it’s not about me. It’s got little to do with me personally, strictly speaking – but it’s an issue that is dear to my heart.
A very dear friend of mine, a talented freelance writer and journalist, is facing eviction, and possibly also having to [...]

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