For many women, love has become a zero-sum game: if you aren't a winner at wedlock, then you are labeled as "single". It is often eqauted with lonely and miserable, or "nice personality" and often means being pitied, pressured, insulted...
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For many women, love has become a zero-sum game: if you aren't a winner at wedlock, then you are labeled as "single". It is often eqauted with lonely and miserable, or "nice personality" and often means being pitied, pressured, insulted and interrogated by family, friends and potential partners. Husband-Free offers first affirmative alternative to conventional singleness. Its emancipating and empowering. Why be single when you can be husband-free?
The wheels of justice move slowly, but in California, they moved this week -- let's hear it for EVERYONE having the chance to become spousally-encumbered if they so choose! When I was little, my mom worked in a doctor's office on the weekends and would often bring home issues of The New Yorker that were even too old to sit in a doctor's waiting room. I would pore over the cartoons, reading each and every one as though they held the secret to life, if only I could understand them. Now, I... Read Full Story
Can you have an eco friendly house if you eat alone?
People are not solitary creatures by nature, yet busy schedules and the demands of the career ladder can sometimes make it easier to just go it alone.
If you want to impress the boss or just earn more money you could well find yourself working such unsociable hours that you end up eating take-away foods or easy-cook meals that we all know are no good for your health - let alone the planet. But can you stop it?
Apparently, people... Read Full Story
I was juggling my ball around 2:20 p.m. when a young girl, age 7 to be exact, decided that she wanted to learn how to pass the ball with me. Ms. Melissa (as her mother calls her) informed me that she is home schooled, loves the American Girl web site and has a new dog named Mia Romaria Miles. As we kept trying new and creative ways to twirl around the ball before making a pass to one another, she asks, "When are you going to get married?" I paused for a minute, and I told her that I just... Read Full Story
I wrote this little poem after a wonderful afternoon of whizzing around London’s Hyde park and Kensington gardens with my boyfriend. Glide me down swiftly, so fleet choosing this path takes me into your arms gentle the arc I draw twice two the figure eight round and round I’m a carousel hold me tight with your charms * I am slicing through the breeze darling, my coming is only for you The wind brushes my face sunshine plays in my hair racing, the beat of my heart alive to all that is new... Read Full Story
pastorrivkah.blogspot.com It's no secret that the vast majority of Protestants, Evangelicals, and essentially any non-Roman Catholic form of Christianity, upholds marriage as the single greatest blessing humanity can receive from God. Just look at the name of one of the largest Christian-based educational organizations in the country: Focus on the FAMILY. While granted, much of the reason there is so much focus on marriage and family among these denominations is an effort to uphold that... Read Full Story
So, you’re still "single." You’re not married, you’re not engaged, you’re not living with someone. You’re not in a relationship that is “serious,” “committed,” or “going somewhere.” You may be dating a lot, a little, or barely at all, but in any case, nothing has happened. You are ready for the real thing. You’ve finished your education, your career is underway, and real life is waiting to begin—all you need is someone to share it with. You’ve made your mistakes, learned from them and moved... Read Full Story
Take a moment to consider virtually any word that commonly carries the “un” prefix. The condemnation conveyed by the combination of these two letters is unavoidable. From tacit disappointment to bitter disgust, the speaker feels superior when uttering an “un” word. Most “un” words derive their meaning from referring to what they are not, and they are negative almost without exception. There are dozens of them – unhappy, unfashionable, unfeminine, unsatisfying, unworthy, unsuccessful... Read Full Story
I know, I know, the media (and I suppose that includes us pesky bloggers) are supposed to leave the candidates' families alone -- but if their lives were so private, why do we all know that Gov. Sara Palin's 17-year-old pregnant daughter is going to get hitched to the baby-daddy??? And an even more interesting question -- with a whole slew of absolutely horrifying answers -- is, WHY, oh WHY, is the fact of their upcoming nuptials being shared with the American public -- heck, the whole world... Read Full Story
Alumnae newsletters -- such joy! Especially the ones from high school -- as if it weren't awful enough the first time through, I still get periodically reminded of the four years I spent surviving in the Big House! (Catholic, all-girls -- need I say more?) And then they have the audacity to ask for cash... The real highlight of all this, though -- better even than the fact that my name is preceded by "Miss" instead of "Ms." on the address label -- is the "Celebrations" page!! Getting hitched... Read Full Story
I never understood before how anyone could become a hermit but the older I get and the more I see the ugly side of human nature I relate more and more with the therapeutic qualities of living a solitary life. One of not having any expectations of anyone else but only of myself. One of not having to deal with nor compromise with the actions of others that do nothing to enhance nor elevate my life. Disappointment is now a daily expectation of mine. I know that several people, several times... Read Full Story
