Life Archives - Katerina Simms

Interesting Links: March 22, 2015

March 22, 2015 ♦

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It's Interesting Links time again! Yay! Today I'm sharing some super amazing time-wasters and eye-openers. First, we have a photo series that will totally challenge your ideas on aging, then there's 21 pictures that will mess with your mind; followed by 35 cake design fails, and lastly a wonderful account…

Date a Girl Who Doesn’t Read

July 21, 2014 ♦

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I stumbled across this piece of prose today and loved it so much I wanted to share it here. The piece is titled 'You Should Date An Illiterate Girl', by Charles Warnke; however I changed the title of this post as I felt 'illiterate' suggested a woman might have had no opportunity to…

The Folly in ‘Trading up’.

July 14, 2014 ♦

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Feature Stories

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Love changes, even non-romantic love; but sometimes it's hard to know whether to stick it out with those we are accustomed to or move on to bigger and better things. While there will always be good reasons to upgrade relationships, there are also huge downsides to ‘trading up’ and leaving behind established friends…

Geeks are the New Sexy!

April 22, 2014 ♦

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Let me preface this post by apologizing to anyone who might be offended by the term ‘geek’. I’m going to use this term a lot, along with some very broad and sweeping generalizations, mostly for the sake of efficiency. Let me also divulge that I too date a geek, but…

Why We Choose to Love Bad People.

March 15, 2014 ♦

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Feature Stories, Uncategorized

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When I started this article I wanted to explore the reasons why people skip healthy partnerships, in favour of unhealthy ones. At first I thought this piece would be about dating, but as I got deeper, I began to realise that this pattern can be found in all types of…