Lizzy Ripp
Bio
I’ve been everything from a burlesque dancer to a Disney Princess, a jazz singer to a poker dealer - who knows where I’ll wind up next!
I’m a writer living in Sydney with an endless curiosity for life, the universe and everything.
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How High School-History Failed Us All
It wasn't until I hit my late twenties that I realised I'd never studied history before. I mean, not really. Sure I'd taken history in high school. I'd even taken some history University thanks to Canada's broad gen-ed requirements for undergraduate degrees.
By Lizzy Ripp5 years ago in The Swamp
Thinking of going Polyamorous?
My husband and I have been together for nearly a decade. We’ve been ethically non-monogamous or polyamorous for five of those years. Trust me when I say that neither of us could have ever predicted this at the start of our relationship. We were your average monogamous but very open-minded couple who didn’t really know any polyamorous people (on my part, outside of a few less than savoury dudes in college who used the term to mean “I can have sex with anyone I want and you’re not allowed to get mad at me because ‘polyamory’).
By Lizzy Ripp5 years ago in Humans
Why New Years Resolutions are Garbage
Let's be real: for the vast majority of us, New Year's Resolutions are garbage. This is for a plethora of reasons, the foremost being that for most people, they simply don't work. According to a recent study, the most comprehensive ever done on the New Year's Resolution phenomenon, only about 19% of those who undertake a resolution will complete it according to their satisfaction. For everyone else, it's a one way guilt-trip into Blue Monday, statistically the saddest day of the year partly because of the guilt of our failed resolutions for the future.
By Lizzy Ripp5 years ago in Motivation
