Women With Balls

From the archives, my celebration of International Women’s Day. (All photos from Wikipedia)

In honor of International Women’s Day I wanted to mention women in history and today, with Balls.  Ya, I said that. Balls.  The ones that inspire, teach and dazzle us.   To me what makes a woman courageous is her ability to go against the mainstream.  She may be doing something that we all look at and ask “why?” and maybe she is the only one who knows Read more →

V-Day-One Billion Rising

Forget about Cupid.  That’s easy if you’re currently navigating a divorce.  Replace Cupid with a cause.  Join One Billion Rising, a movement started by Eve Ensler of the Vagina Monologues fame.  She began this movement 15 years ago to raise awareness about violence against women. I only learned about it this year, I’m ashamed to admit.  The One Billion comes from the statistic that one billion women around the world will suffer from violence in their lifetime.  Isn’t that disturbing? Tens of thousands of dance parties, rallies and performances in more than 170 countries will take place on February 14th.  If you would like to participate visit the website OneBillionRising.org to find a rally or dance party in your city.  Also, Anne Hathaway has designed a tank top in honor of the cause.  You can order her tank top here.

Happy Dancy, V Day, ladies! Hats off to everyone who will take a moment to dance for the victims world wide.  Here is my song choice. You can return here and click and dance on the 14th.

So I couldn’t decide between Cyndi Lauper’s classic and now retro; Girls Just Wanna Have Fun or Pink’s FunHouse.  I posted both for you.

 

 

I love Pink’s energy in this video. Don’t you just want to drive off on a Harley?

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Your Life as a Reality Show

IF your life was a reality show, what would have been the highlights of 2012?  Did you have some shocking moments where the ratings would have been through the roof? Or was the past year more about the quiet retrospective?  If you could produce your reality show, build your own scripts, set and plots based on your Read more →

Bless Us, Everyone

Are you as upset as I am about the latest in a string of mass shootings?  I’m so disturbed and mournful about the Newtown tragedy and at the same time I feel powerless. I feel powerless to assist, powerless to understand, powerless to comprehend let alone to empathize.  How could I empathize with something so horrific?  Read more →

A Bad Husband Costume

Happy Halloween, everyone!  From the archives, A Bad Husband Costume for those who missed it the first time around…

I was having my Sunday night telephone conversation with my 17 year old son when I asked what he was going to dress as for Halloween, at school.  He told me he was going as a “Bad Husband”.  Oh, oh.  Was this a latent reaction to his father’s and my divorce?  So I asked him where he got the idea and he said on the Internet.  Pheeew, not my fault after all.  So I asked him what a bad husband looked like.  He said he has lipstick marks all over his collar and a pair of panties in his shirt pocket.  Ah, infidelity.  I chuckled at the ingenious costume idea.  Later though, I got to thinking about some other possible “Bad Husband” costumes.  I came up with a few ideas;

The Golf Addicted Husband
simply don golf attire and carry the clubs

(Okay, so he makes a little money while he’s playing…)

The Mamma’s Boy Husband
wear a shirt that reads “I’m always right” on the front and on the back it reads “just ask my mom”.

The Gambling Husband
Just carry around a hand of cards and some poker chips

“I lost again!”

The Workaholic Husband
Just carry a briefcase, wear a suit and tie and look dishevelled.

The Ego Husband
attach a cardboard bubble larger than your own head that reads EGO with a teeny tiny cardboard bubble beside it that says ID.

Well, hopefully I got a few smiles.  The point is, we’re all imperfect.  Some of us are just better at it than others.

Enjoy your Halloween with your ghosts and ghouls, little and big! Wishing all of you single moms that extra burst of energy you will need to get your little ones organized and out on this busy night of celebration!

“Come on Mom!  Let’s go before all the candy is gone!”

Do you have an idea for a “Bad Husband” costume?  Please share with us!

Divorce Douchebags

Just for a laugh and to make us all feel better about our own divorces I thought it would be fun to take a look at all the divorce douchebags.  Typically, they come from Hollywood or are known to us through their fame.  Perhaps it is the division of extremely valuable assets and absurd amounts of money that cause the divorce douchebag to rear it’s ugly head.  Here goes;

1. Alec Baldwin- the infamous telephone message to his daughter is the “how not to co-parent” bulletin

2. Heather Mills- the greed, the water thrown in Paul McCartney’s Lawyer’s face and did I mention the greed?

3. Kelsey Grammer- although I love FRASIER, it’s unfortunate we have to get to know the man behind the wonderful character namely Kelsey; as if his affair wasn’t enough he has to go on torturing his ex wife (shame on Oprah for her smutty interviews for ratings. What happened to her quality interviews with extraordinary yet regular folks?)

4. Ashton Kutcher- in a hot tub with 2 women on his and Demi’s 6th anniversary?  Woops.   I would get in a hot tub with him and I have to admit he maybe got tied down (or up) a little too young

5. Jesse James-  to go from beauty Sandra Bullock to Kat Von D, he must have been blinded by the tattoos.  He cost his son a super, step-mom in the process

6.Arnold Schwarzenegger-a love child with the maid. It sounds like something out of a Hollywood (reality series) movie?

7.Tiger Woods-two words: Golden showers.  I can’t for the life of me get that out of my head.

8. Mel Gibson-a picture of divorce abuse.  Can you say ‘supervised visits’?

Next time I will write about Divorce Angels, the ones who have done it right.  But today we can shake our heads and smile thinking of the absurd divorce douchebag stories.  Did I forget anyone?

Illuminating Blogger Award

Hello, everyone.  I’m very pleased to be awarded the Illuminating Blogger Award.  The Award is given to bloggers who provide illuminating content so I’m honored to have received it from CJ Read more →

50 Ways to Leave Your Husband

We can thank Paul Simon for the clever suggestions in “50 Ways To Leave Your lover Husband”.  Paul was one of the best singer, songwriters of his generation.  I remember this song as a child and thinking there was something very unusual about the tune and the lyrics.  It was both catchy and dangerous at the same time.  Read more →

Women With Balls

In honor of International Women’s Day I wanted to mention women in history and today with Balls.  The ones that inspire, teach and dazzle us.   To me what makes a woman courageous is her ability to go against the mainstream.  Read more →

THE WINE DIARIES

Welcome to the wine diaries, a more personal blog that you will find randomly intermixed with my regular blog topics.  Each diary entry will be paired with appropriate wines.  For the first in what will likely be an ongoing series, I reminisce on the pinnacle of my unraveling marriage.  Many people have asked me “How did you know it was the end?” or “When did you know it wasn’t going to work anymore?”  If you have ever asked yourself that question, I write this for you.

 

“BROKEN DREAM HOME”

WE had recently moved from the home we lived in for 15 years.  This move seemed to culminate all of the hurts, regrets and loneliness in me.  I couldn’t understand why, since we moved from a modest home to our “dream” home.  Wasn’t I supposed to be happy and fulfilled?  Wasn’t this what I had worked for over the last 2 years?  Why was I so let down?  Why was I so empty?  Why Read more →