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Apr 27, 2021

The Best Reason a Guy Ever Gave for Why I Should Sleep With Him

One of the most empowering messages of my life was actually an attempt to seduce me.

The Best Reason a Guy Ever Gave for Why I Should Sleep With Him

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Sep 2

My Ex Confessed He Was Too Cheap With Me

… and that a sexist myth drove him to punish me for sins I never committed

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The Casual Mystic

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Aug 21

What to Do When You Receive a Psychic Prediction You Don’t Like

… and it isn’t easy to just shrug it off

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Big List Energy

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Aug 14

The 4-Hour Work Week… Wasn’t… That Bad?

Some thoughts on the controversial self-help bestseller that supposedly broke the whole damn world

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The Casual Mystic

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Aug 2

The Mysticism in The Odyssey Blew Me Away

Reflections on the trippy truths I never expected from a testosterone-fueled war film

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Age of Empathy

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Jul 28

Please Call Your Dying Loved One

On final phone calls and death’s invitation for us to love without conditions

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Age of Empathy

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Jul 16

Women Shouldn’t Need a “Why” to Embody Their Beauty

On sexy selfies, the sin of being hot “for no reason,” and society’s expectation that women justify their visibility

Women Shouldn’t Need a “Why” to Embody Their Beauty

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The Memoirist

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Jul 6

Diary of a North European Heat Wave

Berlin’s record-breaking temperatures were brutal. I’m worried for the future.

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Age of Empathy

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Apr 14

What Do Creatives Owe to A Crumbling Society?

An American writer in Germany ponders her “place”

What Do Creatives Owe to A Crumbling Society?

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The Virago

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Apr 7

Why My Friend and I Noped Out of Speed Dating Once We Glimpsed the Men

On consent, transparency, and the commodification of women

Why My Friend and I Noped Out of Speed Dating Once We Glimpsed the Men

Laura Rosell

Laura Rosell

Writer. Mystic. Academic editor. Berlin resident. US coal-town escapee. Lover of love. Essays about meaning, magic, and connection. https://ko-fi.com/lmrosell

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