Category Archives: Personal column
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Do men hope for marriage?
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
I inadvertently played engagement photographer a couple of weekends ago. While walking across the Walnut Street Bridge, a woman asked …
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Solo Christmas isn’t a tragedy
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
One of the best Christmases I ever spent was in Paris, in a borrowed flat with the boy I love. …
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Long distance relationship challenge
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
A friend once told me long-distance relationships should be avoided like the plague. “In fact,” he said, “they are worse …
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Northwestern live sex demo: No harm, no foul?
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
Northwestern University, where I attended graduate school, recently spent a few weeks at the center of a controversy eddy for …
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Thirtysomething
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
Tuesday was my birthday. I’m not sure when I started feeling a little let down each year on March 29, …
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Chattanooga stinks
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
After publishing a column ostensibly about the new Volkswagen Passat — but really about how Chattanooga is unbearably hot and smells really, …
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A cinematic Christmas
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
I forgot all about Sandra Bullock. Not that she exists, though I confess she hasn’t been uppermost on my mind …
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The danger of wearing your heart on your sleeve
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
Despite writing a newspaper column that often touches on my personal life, I place a lot of value on discretion. …
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Barbie to baby… the clock ticks
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
In the Leber family, “My Cousin Vinny” stands high on the list of favorite movies. At lunch recently, my visiting …
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I’m not lying about my age
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
“A diplomat,” poet Robert Frost once said, “is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her …
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