When your spouse tells you that she (or he) wrote a story today (or accomplished something important in whatever vocation or hobby is her/his personal passion) you should say "Great, babe!" - without having to be prompted - as opposed to - saying nothing ( Read more... )

Do you ever stop to reflect on just how much we are slaves to our physical makeup ( Read more... )

I was talking with a man at church [poetry] last night. He was from out of town. He comes to Newark regularly for business. He read about the reading in the local paper and came to check it out. He asked me about the town, about the reading, about writing, about creativity vs a "functional" life ( Read more... )

"How shallow the words are, really - She is a witch. One might as well say, She is a mother... that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it?"

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""You are truly mad," says Iris. "You are lying. No one would be so callous ( Read more... )

I have always heard that if you want to keep a man, you have to keep the sex-life alive. I know this has sexist connotations to it, but it also makes fundamental sense. A man is a sexual being on a level that women are not. He is hard-wired that by Nature to spread his seed, whereas women are built to catch one seed at a time, turn it into a ( Read more... )

Dear Media ( Read more... )

My new year's resolution: stop telling people "I have to pee". Say, "I have to use the Lady's Room."

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Do you remember in the second grade when your best-friend-of-the-moment decided not to like you any more and invited everyone to her birthday party except for you ( Read more... )

Sometime after 11PM*SILENCE ( Read more... )

I painted my nails this morning - blackberry red. Stole five whole minutes to myself after loading the car ( Read more... )