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BlogHer of the Week: Trauma Queen

by Jory Des Jardins at 12:22pm Mon, 2 Nov 2009 under Life, City Life, paramedic, medblogging, Edinburgh, Trauma Queen; 765 views
In the U.S. we love our emergency room dramas, fictional life-and-death scenarios punctuated with occasional, on-the-job romance.
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BlogHer of the Week: Ivana Kidd from The Phantom Line

To see ourselves like those who love us do: Some of us achieve this, and some of us struggle. Sometimes it's our physical appearance that doesn't stack up, we believe, to being lovable. And sometimes it's a perceived failure deeper within. In her post "You're So Pretty" Ivana Kidd of The Phantom Line confronts her struggle in the midst of grief painted twice--the death of her mother and a miscarriage.
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BlogHers of the Week: Lesbian Dad; Spin Me I Pulsate; and Matt, Liz and Madeline

This week we couldn't help but notice a theme in some of your recommendations for BlogHer of the Week. As I started to read your posts a familiar, but long tucked away, feeling of grief arose, and I was grateful I wasn't in the office at that moment, because the tears came, then again, and again. I remembered how it felt to touch bottom, experience emptiness, and then see life slowly leak back into the picture, sometimes slowly, and other times with overwhelming, ersatz saturation like Technicolor.
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BlogHer of the Week: The Bloggess

One can only imagine the size of the Post-Its in Jenny Lawson's house. Or the size of her cat.
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BlogHer of the Week: AV Flox

When we started reading BlogHer Contributing Editor AV Flox's piece on BlogHer.com, "Learning To Fly (Or, "Trying To Date Again After Divorce)", we (or this reader, anyway) expected the usual, trenchant commentary on all things love and relationships--her "beat" on BlogHer.com.
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