Thoughts on friendship
I often see articles on how to have successful relationships, but these are almost always focused on romantic and/or sexual relationships, which is odd because we have so many other
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What if you just… keep going?
I was on the tube on my lunch break one day recently, dashing a few stops down the line to maximise my time for running errands and also grabbing a
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I should have known
I should have known that getting older would bring wisdom. I guess it just didn’t quite manifest in the way I thought it would, so I never saw it coming.
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The wanderer returns
When I decided to stop updating this blog back in February, it was because I was feeling thoroughly uninspired. I didn’t know what I wanted to write about any more
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Goodbye from Rarely Wears Lipstick
I was trying to write over the weekend and have realised that I’ve been treating my blog like a friend you always cancel on. I keep making plans that I
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Wonderful websites that changed my reading habits forever
When I gave up reading women’s glossy magazines in my 20s, it was partly because I found very little of interest to read in them any more, and it was
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Taking time out for… reading
I used to read a lot of fiction. As a child I would power through books in a way that only a kid who lived opposite a library could in
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Reflections on 2018
As the end of December approaches, the urge to take stock of the previous 12 months grows and our social media feeds fill up with posts from people reflecting on
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The Super Humans of 2018
It’s that time of year again. When the days are at their shortest and the end of the year approaches, I like to share a list of the people who
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Help me find my blogging inspiration!
I’ve been blogging for 15 years now, and have covered a variety of different topics over the years. What started as an online diary of sorts back in 2003, became
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