Don’t Try This at Home: Adultery in the Marital Bed By JOYCE WADLER January 12, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/garden/13cheat.html?_r=1&sq=marital%20bed&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all THE woman who came to see Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer, had reason to be enraged: her husband was not only having an affair, he was also having an extravagant, money’s-no-concern, fabled-and-faraway-beaches affair. He had taken his...
So I’m sitting here catching up on my readings for school. When I am here alone, I allow my itunes to keep me company. And since I’m the only one who gets to choose the songs, I’m never disappointed by the songs on my playlist that play at random. (if you’re ever curious about...
I love break-ups! There’s nothing better for yourself esteem than a good gut-punch or a good face rub in the dirt. Okay, enough of the sarcasm. Break ups suck!!! Major ass, man! The only thing worse than being broken up with is being broken up with, taking the guy back, and being broken up...
originally posted at www.oprah.com It’s joy, it’s misery, it’s an ache that you miss when it’s gone—what is it about desire that has such a hold on us? Patricia Stacey takes a tutorial on a subject as old, knotty, delicious, and confusing as love itself—though love has nothing to do with it—and discovers the...
Although I’m not one to state the obvious, I felt it necessary to preface the rest of what I’m going to say in this blog post with “No one is perfect.” Every man you meet is going to come with some baggage, drama, and perhaps a few loose screws and this totally okay. Furthermore,...
Now, in an effort to join the conversation and allow black women’s voices to be heard on this issue, Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network, or WEEN (which boasts of members including rapper MC Lyte), has published its own “Open Letter” to black men in response to derogatory comments rapper Slim Thug recently made in...
Forgive me for the title of this post. I know it’s a bit jarring, especially coming from a woman who considers herself to view women as the most beautiful, intelligent, resilient, creatures to walk the earth. Yes, contrary to what’s implied by this blog title, in general, I’m more partial and more sympathetic to...
Love & Money: When It Comes to Rich Men, Don’t be Penny Wise & Pound Foolish! Several blog posts ago, I posted an article from a website that deals with love, dating, and relationships. The article is written by Elise Nersesian and is entitled, “He’s Not Rich? So What?” The basic premise of the...
as appeared in GQ August 2008 Of course I loved her. Isn’t that how all these stories are supposed to begin? She was from Amsterdam, black Dominican mother, white Dutch father. I called her my chabine because that’s what she looked like; only her lips and hair kept from passing completely, from pulling a...
Love Story by Katha Pollitt from Learning to Drive Dostoyevsky says somewhere that we attract to ourselves events that are like ourselves. If so, it must also be true that people who experience the same things are in some way like each other. After G. left and I found out about his other women,...
