This was a post from 2010, but it's appropriate for the No Marriage Open Call so re-posting ...

Thanksgiving…time for turkey, tryptophan naps and, traditionally, the dreaded high school reunion.  Because everyone is usually ‘home for the holidays,’ schools… Read full post »

Can comparison shopping backfire in online dating?

             How many of us wished we could take the best part of each previous relationship and combine them to mastermind the perfect mate, a modern day Frankenstein lover. Just in time for Valentine's… Read full post »

"Sid, at Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain." 

-- John Lennon to Sid Bernstein

  Mad Man Don Draper may have finally redeemed himself.  After being cold and unfeeling toward his daughter for nearly all of the previous hit show's episodes, Draper pulle/… Read full post »

 It’s official: Facebook IS Assbook. 

 Quick, where’s my ‘thumbs-down’ icon?  Make that two thumbs (and 8 fingers) down.  Actually, two middle fingers up.  

Just as I was contemplating deleting my Facebook profile… Read full post »

         Nothing like not taking my own advice.  See Fresh Hell.  Now that I’ve had no source of viable income, except Uncle Sam, and reign as the Queen of Rej/… Read full post »

 Riding that (fame) train...Casey James you better watch your speed.

Oops. Eye and ear candy man hit a speed bump.  A big one.  I'm actually relieved.  After all, Casey was the only reason I stooped low enough (to hunker down on my couch, almost hidin/… Read full post »

Or are you just happy to see me?

Well, maybe if I was a pubescent boy. 

Good thing I’m an almost-recovered Catholic. Good thing my devout Catholic parents are safe inside the Pearly Gates and can’t witness this latest disgrace. Though it isn’t the first… Read full post »

          “…and go to the grave with the song still in them.”  

Apparently, that’s not what Thoreau originally wrote.  According to the Walden Woods Project, Henry David said: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desp… Read full post »

My new name for the Republican party: Retardican. Or, as they’d say in Massachusetts: Retahhhdican. (Now Seth MacFarlane won’t be the only person getting hate mail from Sarah Palin.)

Is Kentucky senator Jim Bunning for real?  In the worst economic maelstrom since The Great Depressio… Read full post »

              It’s Valentine’s Day and thoughts turn to love — or massacre. (Maybe that's redundant.) Treacly cards abound declaring undying passion for “My One True Love,” though Hallmark is savvy enough, psychologically, to… Read full post »

   To hear my gay friends talk, I’d wager not.  How else do you explain all the “straight” men who seek oral pleasure (and more) from men?

            In my Fag Hag days (“You’ll never… Read full post »

   The Merriam-Webster word for January 20^th was “Augean stable: a condition or place marked by great accumulation of filth or corruption."  President Obama has been in office a year. Coincidence? 

           Either Mer… Read full post »

            Would I have a better chance finding Big Foot?  Nessie?  The Holy Grail? 

            Considering all the men I’ve known, and my friends have known,/… Read full post »

 Thanksgiving…time for turkey, tryptophan naps and, traditionally, the dreaded high school reunion.  Because everyone is usually ‘home for the holidays,’ schools tend to schedule these nostalgic events the weekend after Thanksgiving.  Tend to. 

Thankfully, m… Read full post »

 Yeah, that’s right: I’m mad. And I’m a woman.  A woman who, until a recent lay-off, worked in the madcap world of advertising.  

Scratch madcap: that’s not the right word.

More like mad as in insane, crazy, nuts. As in: three martini lunches turned int… Read full post »

My mother (rest her soul) would’ve disagreed with New York Times’ bestselling author and comedian Steve Harvey. In his book, “Act Like a Lady. Think Like a Man,” Harvey, like many of the Relationship Rule Makers from the past few decades, believes that when it comes to/… Read full post »

As if Reality TV wasn’t the nadir of broadcasting Hell, something the Titans would be forced to watch for eternity in Tartarus (Hey, a new series pitch!)—now everyone is hooked on Real Housewives.

            I understand the gu… Read full post »

Dining with two menopausal friends the other night proved enlightening. And a bit disheartening. As usual when females gather, the subject turned to sex. And the lack thereof. One of my menopausal friends had been married thirty years, the other was single, but had enjoyed several long-term r… Read full post »

Chastity belts, corsets and girdles…nylons that run the second you don them…LOWER PAY (at least before President Obama and Lilly Ledbetter had anything to say about it): Haven’t women suffered enough in our patriarchal society—without having to wear stilettos?

Just becaus… Read full post »

I didn’t need to see Revolutionary Road to know that many a 1950’s housewife probably felt like tying those apron strings tightly around their necks while dangling from a clothesline.  No matter how vehemently they may (still) protest the opposite.

Sadly, an aunt by marriage did tha… Read full post »

Ding dong the wicked witch of the West Wing is...dead? (well, maybe if that shoe had been hurled by Richard Reid...)

...Is GONE!  And, even in the figurative sense, that's good enough for me.