I was never that woman who dreamt of having many children or starting my own “Brady Bunch.” Babies, little booties, and bottles were always an afterthought to enjoying a successful career, one peppered with travelling the world and enjoying a range of other adult activities a childless, flexible lifestyle could provide. However, after my husband […]
If we talk about healthy habits and a comfortable lifestyle, nothing represents those two things better than a swimming pool in your own home. Starting the morning fresh after a good swim, and relaxing in the water after a hard day of work are both truly amazing things that many people wish for. When it […]
Last Friday night, Patrick and I took a break from drinking beers and talking smack about Mitt Romney to befriend two couples who happened by our neighborhood bar. They needed a place to sit; we offered to share our table. And as many newly engaged couples are, all four of them were a little bit […]
Well, schools are the right places for many things. On top of those would be learning. Kids are meant to learn so many things while in school that would help them in the future. Well, one thing which could affect them would be the in-school holiday shop. Have you ever thought about that? This name […]
I’m someone who has had a lot of sex with a lot of different people — “a lot,” of course, being subject to interpretation. I have had several relationships throughout my life, but a fair amount of sex has been with hookups, men that I briefly dated, or FWB. I’ve been lucky enough to have […]
A a new study conducted by anthropologists at Emory University set out to determine why some fathers take to the job more than others. Naturally, they decided to study their balls. The study looked at 70 biological fathers who had a child between the ages of one and two, and who were living with the […]
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a form of psychotherapy that originated in the 1980s. It was initially devised by psychologist Marsha M. Linehan to treat people with a borderline personality disorder. However, in recent decades, it has been used to treat an array of mental illnesses. To better understand what DBT is and how it […]
Clad in my black tank top and baggy, boldly printed South African pants, the dryness from my face was forming cracks in my foundation, and my mascara was flaking under my heavy eyelids. I had just been on an 11-1/2 hour flight from Cape Town to Amsterdam, and was now flying eight more hours over […]
For better or worse? Marriage isn’t easy. People are happy as clams when they take those wedding vows, but do those couples know that the chances of them getting divorced are about 40 to 50%? And that doesn’t suggest that the other 50 to 60% of couples are actually happy in their marriages. It’s sad […]
