Next Monday, my husband and I will celebrate 30 years of marriage. During that time, there have been things one or the other of us has wanted to do, but the responsible thing was to wait. More >>
Yesterday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation cut off funding to Planned Parenthood ostensibly because it is in their set of standards not to give funding to organizations under federal judicial investigation. Planned Parenthood is under such an investigation. More >>
This is about standing up and speaking out. Not enough of you do it, and you don't do it often enough. There's a good reason you don't - because you get crap for it and most people want to avoid getting crap in their lives. More >>
I'm sitting here listening to your program, hearing you talk about REAL MEN and how they are a dying breed... Honestly, I have to agree with you... but how lucky am I that I DID marry a real man! My husband is a former Marine who served his country willingly. More >>
Is competition good for kids? I'm going to give you the short answer and the long answer. The short answer? After about 8 years old, it's absolutely necessary. Before 8 years old, most kids are not really ready to process competition and what it means, and what the rules are and what's fair, and what failure means and the rest of that. So, for the sake of argument, I'm going to be talking about kids over 8 - when competition is absolutely necessary. More >>
There's an increasing population of women who want to date, have sex with or marry death row prisoners. Some women actually find that sexy. So I did some research in trying to understand more about why a woman would be turned on by that. More >>
You probably all heard about this really stupid story - they are happening more and more and more - when a kid misbehaves in one way or another and the parents call attorneys and the ACLU. It seems everything is self expression, which then is supposed to be protected speech. More >>
My children are now 25 and 23. When they were little, my daughter would comment as we passed day care centers that she wanted to go to day care. More >>
I am a product of an affair my mother had on her first husband. I have 12 half brothers and sisters, but only grew up knowing 3 of them (the three from her first marriage). My mother divorced and remarried my step father when I was 4. More >>