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  A Woman’s Best Friend’s Role In Romantic Relationships
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    A Woman’s Best Friend’s Role In Romantic Relationships

    December 28, 2006December 28, 2023
    4 Comments

    A woman’s best friend has to sign off on all big relationship decisions, says the Date Doctor on ‘Hitch’. I examine my own love life to see if that’s true.

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  Just A Friendly Conversation
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Just A Friendly Conversation

    December 27, 2006February 18, 2023
    5 Comments

    You know you really need to get out and find some sex. Are you offering? Shoot the idiot who thought that men and women could be friends. Can anyone tell me why the above conversation annoyed me? I know why….I’m mad at myself for imagining that I could have a…

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  • Map Of Emotion

    Wild child*

    December 23, 2006April 14, 2024
    9 Comments

    I had my hair done today. Cropped short, coloured, highlighted…woddeva. Would you believe I don’t feel a thing now, 2 short hours later? The last time I had my hair done, the colour ran out in the shower and for a year after I endured a muddy-coloured thatch on my…

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    Body & Sex | Relationships

    Just A Date: That Heady Ol’ Feeling

    December 21, 2006December 29, 2023
    3 Comments

    She said she was going out to dinner. Not family. Not an old friend. Not a classmate or a colleague. Not a ‘marriage prospect’. Something quite like..a date!

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  Comic: The Progressive Woman
    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Comic: The Progressive Woman

    December 16, 2006March 30, 2025
    7 Comments

    And I’ve created my first comic! Thanks to Sensorcaine for giving me the lead (do see her collection too!)

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  • Fiction

    55-Words: Footprints

    December 9, 2006March 8, 2023
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    Like a long forgotten but much loved sweaterThe memory of him tumbled into her sight When she was taking one of her rare solitary walksShe paused outside his doorAnd stood for a long whileBefore walking away When she got home, hours later,there were footprints outside her doorMatching his shoes.

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  • Home & Identity | Poetry

    And Then Again..

    December 9, 2006September 17, 2023
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    And in those grand old days when we laughed for attentionAnd suppressed our smiles into thin lines for humourAn unsmiling, unparalleled stare captivated usCompelling us to stay And we followed, hypnotizedby that novel concept of cold independenceThat we imagined it meant We often wondered why we were heldRelentlessly, while we…

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  • Pop Culture | WorkSpace

    Office Capers: The office band

    December 8, 2006March 30, 2025
    2 Comments

    IdeaSmith: We ought to have an office band SNC: I was in a band in college! IdeaSmith: What? Doing what?  PJ Rani: Playing the drum? Being the drum? IdeaSmith: Oh shut it…so how about it BAA? BAA: Why me? I don’t sing! SFOS: You ought to be out-lawed from being a…

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  • Map Of Emotion

    Youth Surfing Chronicles: Teen Turmoil & Fresh Wisdom

    December 2, 2006December 29, 2023
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    What business do teenagers have with ambition? Will our bad choices make them cynical? I’m gad they made this one sensible. I’ve been youth surfing.

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  Office Capers: Let’s get the show on the road!!
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    Office Capers: Let’s get the show on the road!!

    November 28, 2006March 30, 2025
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    The travails at office today – BAA : Today I had my first crush Us: Your first ever? BAA (who has a new car): Yeah…I’ve been careful with the car all month Us: Oh..crash, not crush BAA: Yes, this guy came by and I sort of swung out. It wasn’t…

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Comments

  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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