Do you remember the first time your mother made you buy the Kotex? Slinking through the drugstore with that big box of pads all the while hoping you didn’t run into any boys you knew? Or when you bought a package of condoms for the first time? Or just started buying them again after finding yourself out in the dating world after a relationship of years was over? Slipping the box onto the conveyor at the checkout strategically placed among a dozen other items because you were too old to be embarrassed, right? That box of Trojans propped up between the Diet Coke and the toilet bowl cleaner was a sign of how comfortable you were with your mature woman’s sexuality – until the teenage cashier turned out to be the student in your homeroom whose name and face you never could remember but were unlikely to forget again? Read Full Article
50 Something Moms
Well, okay no – not really. I abhor her politics and wonder if perhaps she wasn’t raised by the same moose herd she hunts now from the safety of helicopters because I can’t imagine who taught her to speak the way she does. But what I want to ask her,
“Is there any moment in your life for which you haven’t hallucinated an alternate reality?”
Because she seems to have survived a different presidential campaign than everyone else. One where shadowy baseball types control American politics from hidey holes beneath Fenway Park and those liberal media types and bloggers living in their parents’ basements unfairly tarnished her credibility without her help. Read Full Article
I was never a fan of Ally McBeal despite having far more in common with her than I care to go on record about at this point in my life. There is one episode of the show that still sticks out in my mind however. Ally saw a counselor who urged her to adopt a theme song for her life. I knew it was meant to be a joke, but I was struck by the fact that I did this already. My life was as scored as a Broadway musical. Read Full Article
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