Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga has written an advice book, Love Italian Style, for people who want a marriage as hot and happy as the one she has with her husband Joe. Her entire ethos on the subject boils down to this sentence: "Husbands want their wives to submit; wives want our husbands to dominate."The amount of sexism, gender ( Read more... )

She still saw the ghost of him in the familiar places, in their childhood haunts and sites of romantic interludes. A man with reddish hair and a scruffy beard would walk towards her with a gentle gleam in his eye and her heart would sink to her toes, and in the space of a minute she'd feel overwhelming joy and dread all at once. The longer the time ( Read more... )

We are walking on a small path through a verdant garden. The flowers are fragrant and the area is heavily wooded. I am confused as to why we are together, but you skip ahead happily, speaking of our love and our future. I don't know how to tell you that I don't love you anymore. We reach the edge of the water, which is full of boats and lies ( Read more... )

well, an update seems in order ( Read more... )

it was a very good year for small town girls and warm summer nights.

lord, i drove to the ends of the earth and back today. by the ends of the earth, i mean Queens, NY.

damn, i was hoping for something wonderful and insightful to come out, but it won't. probably my menstrual cramps chasing my muse into hiding for the evening.

lord.

catch me i'm falling

i feel you, fate

these little pills numb me

until...

until they don't

if love were enough to sustain me

i'd live forever

as it is

i will die.

what if ( Read more... )

dinner: tuna sushi roll, bag of baked Amy's pita chips
290 + 190 = 480
Chai latte = 200 cal
total: 680 cal

food

last night a small piece of pizza (bad girl!)

half a turkey sandwich on whole wheat, salad with chickpeas and cottage cheese and oil and vinegar, two tablespoons plain yogurt with sprinkling of fruit loops (haha) and two sugar free iced teas