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Monthly Archive for July, 2011

As I made my way up Highway 101 to work today, I caught just a snippet of the news on the radio — a handful of teenagers had been mauled by a bear in the Alaskan wilderness. What are teenagers doing in the wilds of Alaska, I thought to myself, and then just as quickly […]

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So Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are planning to divorce but remain business partners in their reality TV show “Q’Viva!,” according to the Huffington Post. All I can say is, good luck! It seems sort of romantic to go into business with someone you love and know so well; who better than a spouse to […]

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It’s been quite the month at the house I share with my two sons, 20 and 17. Lying, stonewalling, sexting, violence, unprotected sex — you name it, and we’ve lived through it. Oh, I don’t mean that my kids were doing that  — that is what’s been on the news as we followed former California […]

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Two black eyes, one worried man

As luck — bad luck —  would have it, I somehow managed to get two black eyes in less than four months. When the second one occurred, thanks to my overly aggressive approach to tree trimming, I ran inside the house to get an ice pack and then called my boyfriend, who heard my cries […]

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Gabriel Aubry is being a bad dad. Well, we don’t know that for a fact; all we know is that actress Halle Berry, with whom the model had a daughter, now 3, is claiming that he’s been neglectful. She may be right, she may be wrong, but in the eyes of much of the world, […]

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A closet full of memories

Like many adolescents, I used to riffle through my parents’ drawers and closets. It wasn’t that I was so curious about my parents’ “other” life — the one that went on behind the closed doors of their bedroom. Most kids can barely fathom that their parents actually have a life, let alone a sex life, […]

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I have been feeling a little like the queen of ugly. I had no idea a blog post written tongue-in-cheek about whether women should marry attractive men or not would create such a furor — Jezebel thinks I’m blaming women for men’s bad behavior (I’m not); Rush Limbaugh thinks I’m a militant feminist (wow, is […]

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