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Sorry to Rankle!

Posted on March 11th, 2009 | 24 comments

My post: Breastfeeding Your Man and Blind Date Sex – While Kids are in the Next Room sure caused a stir. I sort of expected that. But the outcry in the comment section was louder than I expected. I was skewered, big time, by a very vocal minority.
To everyone I rankled, I apologize.
I knew the [...]

Play the Game of Life

Posted on August 8th, 2008 | 15 comments

Eight has always been a special number for me. So at 8:08 on 8/8/08, I’m focusing on happiness – for me and my loved ones, and everyone else. The Dalai Lama says the very purpose of life is to be happy, and the road to happiness is through compassion. Why shouldn’t that road be full, [...]

A Creepy Writing Vibe

Posted on May 27th, 2008 | 32 comments

SingleWorkingMommy recently had this to say about my writing in the comment section of my How To Grill Asparagus post:
You’re a great writer (and I’m an editor, so take that for what you will)–I could picture the restaurant, the setting, the mood. I could almost feel your gin-induced fog. Great piece.
Except I get this “cree.pee” [...]

Hooking Up – I Just Want To Be Your Lover

Posted on February 29th, 2008 | 8 comments

Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp gives a detailed look at the hookup culture that is permeating social scenes in American colleges and even some high schools.
Hooking up involves two people getting together for sex without commitment or attachment. Ms. Stepp suggests [...]

Oh great, Another Bestseller with a Deadbeat Dad

Posted on February 14th, 2008 | one comment

Tom Perrotta’s new book, The Abstinence Teacher, is for the most part an enjoyable read. But what’s with the main characters – a divorced man incapable/not allowed to raise his child, and a woman whose only male friends are gay? Isn’t it time to stop furthering these socially toxic stereotypes?
As a heterosexual man who is [...]