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Letter to My Teenage Self

Letter to My Teenage Self

by Hollye Dexter | May 19, 2017 | aging gracefully, Healing from Fear, self acceptance, self esteem, teenage daughter, things I wish i knew then

Dear Teen Self,Remember that muggy, summer afternoon when you and your friends sat in a circle on your bedroom floor, your fingers raking through the tired, flattened shag carpet while you all pondered whether you’d still be alive in the year 2000?  (And then the...

A Cautionary Tale

by Hollye Dexter | Oct 30, 2012 | aging, living authentically, self esteem, skin cancer, sun exposure, tanning, tanning booths

This is what I look like right now. This is my fifth bout with skin cancer, and the fourth (and by far the worse) permanent scar on my face. I don’t go in the sun. I wear sunscreen every day (have for as long as I can remember) so how did I get this way?This is a...

Judge not…or do. Whatevs.

by Hollye Dexter | Oct 5, 2011 | judgment, life lessons, self acceptance, self esteem, self forgiveness

“When you judge someone, you do not define them. You simply define yourself as someone who needs to judge.” – Wayne DyerWe all make judgments every day; I like this, I don’t like that. I don’t like the way he drives. I like the way she dresses. We pick and...

I’m Not Qualified for Anything, But I Do It Anyway.

by Hollye Dexter | Jul 15, 2011 | handling rejection, job search, Middle Age, pursuing dreams, self esteem

Amy Ferris and I had this  conversation the other day and decided we’d blog about it together. Mine is below, and Amy’s is linked at the bottom. Every time I start to panic about money, and start looking for “real jobs”, I am daunted by how...

Why I’m a Terrible Gardener

by Hollye Dexter | Dec 28, 2010 | family, family dysfunction, healing, ridding your life of negative energy, self esteem

I’m truly a terrible gardener. I so envy those of you with your flourishing english gardens in Southern California. Oh you, with your lovely spring vegetables, showing up with bags of ripe, plump tomatoes on my doorstep- you amaze me. For years I’ve described myself...

Hey Jealousy- Part Deux

by Hollye Dexter | Oct 15, 2010 | competition, friendship, jealousy, life lessons, self esteem

(Oh sequins…the mortal enemy of mid-life woman…)I’m picking up the thread of a blog I wrote a couple months ago. It was a story about a time when I got caught up in envy and, dare I say it, jealousy. The life lesson was this: jealousy has nothing to do...
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About Hollye

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press). Called “moving” and “inspiring on so many levels” by FIRST FOR WOMEN Magazine, Fire Season was also an NIEA finalist for BEST MEMOIR. Hollye’s essays and articles about women’s issues, activism and parenting have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Writer’s Digest and more. In 2003, she founded the award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care system.

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