October 2011
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I Can, Too, Quit You
I quit smoking 21 years ago. No applause, please; you don’t congratulate someone for escaping a burning building. But I am rather pleased with myself for Ethlie’s Three Tips for Quitting Smoking.
1. The craving to smoke will pass, whether you pick up a cigarette or not.
2. You never need to be 100% willing quit smoking. You only need to be 51% willing.
3. Quitting smoking doesn’t make you...
September 2011
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Feed the White Dog
I am in Stockton, California, about to venture into a Barnes & Noble and read aloud information about myself so personal that a more reasonable woman would take it to her grave. I never really considered how confessional LOVE ADDICT: SEX, ROMANCE AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS would turn out, nor did I realize how uncomfortable reading it in public would be. There’s a good reason the Catholic...
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Ethlie talks LOVE ADDICT on K-EARTH 101 →
Includes your invitation to the Sept. 17 book reading in Los Angeles and Sept. 19 in Santa Barbara!
WatchHow can sex and love be addictive? Let me count the ways….
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Dodging the Bullet?
This newswire story landed in my inbox a few times, as you can imagine:
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch prosecutors are charging a 42-year-old woman with stalking after she allegedly called her ex-boyfriend 65,000 times in the past year.
The 62-year-old victim from The Hague filed a police complaint in August due to the persistent phone calls. Police arrested the suspected stalker Monday, seizing several...
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The Seven Year Itch
Like Saturday Night Live’s original oversharer Stuart Smalley, I claim membership in more than one 12-step group. Unlike Stuart’s alter ego, I will probably never become a U.S. Senator. Of course, it was improbable that Al Franken would become a U.S. Senator, so who knows?
But back to the 12-step groups. A few decades of listening to people “in the rooms” — a concept so different from...
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Today Is The Day!
After a long and sometimes painful gestation, LOVE ADDICT: SEX, ROMANCE AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS (HCI Books) comes into the world today, September 1, 2011. Please ask your local bookstore to sell you a copy, or obtain an e-copy online through the usual suspects, or find me on the street and shake me down for one. I am a soft touch, if you hadn’t already figured that out.
