What Do You Want ? I sometimes find myself sitting here in disbelief, wondering what is going on with this country. What are we doing, what are we out to

GOING DUTCH?…(OR NOT) In my single days, I never looked forward to first dates, even when it was a guy I truly liked. In these post-modern times, we’re supposedly past

So Teach Your Children Well… Aah children, tiny humans that brighten our lives with their naivety and simple questions that can never be simply answered. Children are like snowflakes. Each

The First Cut Is The Deepest… Perceptions of beauty are subjective and arbitrary. This is because everyone has a different vision of what constitutes the ideal physical human shell. All

Just Take A Breath When I was younger, my life’s fuel was more stress than joy, but I was too busy to notice. I started college as a nursing major,

The Bonobo and The Atheist Atheism and its allied understanding of the world, humanism was around way way back in the early days of the civilizing of our species. Hieronymus

 Boop-boop-a-doop! Sexual ruminating may perhaps be the largest squander in a person’s life. The perpetual churning of detailed sexual fantasies and fetishes, prospective conquests and encounters is, if nothing else

Not Shaken… But Definitely Stirred?   It’s a little bit pathetic how giddy I get walking into my local Border’s or Barnes and Noble. I’m a huge sucker for classic

Yoga Gives, Right?   I used to find it laughable that people claimed that going to the gym was “relaxing.” I found it anything but. The only way it could

Love Hurts   My darling my dearest, my dearest my love, I’m leaving you. Our bed is icy, and I need the sun. Love is blind, love conquers all, But

SEX, DRUGS AND… KITCHEN ROLL   Turning into one’s mother might only be a scary manifestation of that great fear: getting old. Lost youth and unfulfilled potential doesn’t have to

Definition of a Fanatic (And you know this is never going to be you!)   Pick up those weights, ladies, get some definition, and do some real cardiovascular workouts. Rest

There’s No Success Like Failure   How did we arrive at our concept of success? Of desirability? Of normality? What are the bases of the measures we use? Animal instinct?

ì… All Fur Coat and No Knickers…ì   Most of us don’t give wearing panties a second thought. Unless we go commando, putting on a pair of panties is just

A Leg Up Showing some cleavage in the boardroom may seem harmless. But a small step for a woman may be a giant leap back for womankind. It was a

Listen Guys ! “We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.” — Margaret Atwood John blinked in the glaring fitting

IT’S COMPLICATED… REALLY COMPLICATED Backsliding… – or how those 2am bootycalls are a fatal weakness for an independent women with a wanker for an ex Self-suffiency comes in many forms,

“Excuse me, can we adjust the attitude? A few nights ago, I was out at the Soho House with some friends when an interesting conversation broke out during my trip

STROBE MEN By Sophia Fox-Sowell But alas, I grow bored with this chase. I’m too old to play this game. there’ll always be another mongrel hungry enough To chase my

The Bright Side Whenever we try to improve things and fail, it is not because the spiteful (or unfathomably benevolent) gods are thwarting us or punishing us for trying… but

I Want to Be a Part of It… You can leave the Midwest and head to San Francisco, say goodbye to Alabama for more bigger and better job opportunities in

… Hear Me Roar ! My ex-boyfriend used to refer to himself as the fine wine; that gets better with age. I laughed ( to hide both my anger and

LIFESPAN What if we could be younger longer? Not years longer but decades longer. What if those final years didn’t look so terribly different from the years that came before

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EATING FRIED SHRIMP AND FRIED CATERPILLAR? NOT A DAMNED THING! AS PER USUAL IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND. Chocolate chip cookies are, undoubtedly, an, all-time, American