Uh-oh.

My life is surreal. I’d explain it but being it’s surreal, I can’t. It’s like describing Dali. How does one describe him? Genius or fucked up?
I managed to pull up from my bottomless pit of agony. I think I edged insanity. It’s been a long time since I’ve walked those woods. I apologized and do [...]

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38 Years Toward Freedom

I’ve made a pact with myself to always write a What I’ve Learned type of essay on my birthday.
Last year was difficult. Not only in number for some reason but I was going through a lot of personal turmoil, most of which was secluded among a very small group of people. Without them, in their [...]

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Intelligent Quote of the Day

Telling the truth is always the first step toward freedom.”  ~ Dr. Marty Klein of Sexual Intelligence

I second that.

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Weighing the American Dream

I would pay 6 dollars for an apple if I had to but for that price it had better be phenomenal in taste.  I expect organic and higher priced fruit to feel like I’m eating from the Garden of Eden.  I can’t find that kind of good fruit anymore unless it’s off a tree in my yard.  [...]

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Creating a Sex Life When Married With Children

How does a mother of 3 have a sex life?  Well, creativity goes a long way but when that goes, some good common grandma advice works just as well.
 
I’m trying to get smart and teach my kids to play together.  In my day kids didn’t want to be with their parents and would do anything [...]

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President Obama on True Satisfaction

A lot of sentences Barack Obama spoke in his inaugural speech touched me. 
 
This one, however, is a favorite.  Experience in my personal  challenges have taught me that these words hold truth.  It wraps up everything in life; it’s the formula to self-created happiness and purpose  for those who are willing to do the work. Question is, [...]

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Back to Inner Beauty

Inner Beauty by Reenita Malhotra Hora is among my favorite books.  I first began to read it when I began the erotic road a few years ago.  I think it’s what led me, in part, to learn about sensuality, inner sensefulness, and the art of seducing my own soul.  Of course, I gained an intro into the [...]

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The “Good Little Wife”

Contexts blog introduced me to a Walmart “stereotype” ad of moms who can do anything.  The blogger writes:
…So apparently the wife is the one doing all the spending and, if she is a good little wife, she’s frugal and makes her husband’s hard-earned money go further.  This would reproduce the husband as money-earner/wife as money-spender stereotype.
Though she [...]

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Happiness to the 3rd Degree

Do you like happy people?  Who doesn’t?  When others are happy, we tend to be happy. 
 
“Even people we don’t know and have never met have bigger effect on our mood than substantial increases in income” says James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego.
 
Yep.  Think about how that unsmiling, pissed off [...]

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The Expat Years: Death of an Ornamental Life

For months I pondered how I’d write my final chapter of “The Expat Years”.  Being the entire adventure was never fictional, I knew I’d have to wait to see how it would turn out before I could write it.
 
I toyed with the traveler’s approach, the human interest slant, the American vs. the German view or [...]

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