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married people actually have sex shocker!
Saturday, July 12th, 2008This week we read in the shocker-tastic British press about the married couple that had sex for 101 days in a row, and the wife who gave her husband a gift (or “gave” her husband a “gift”) of sex every day for a year- which apparently they almost actually managed.
If you consider it perfectly [...]
tips on supporting friends going through divorce
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Oh how I wish I’d had Gretchen Rubin’s excellent list of suggestions a few years back! To give other people who needed it, of course. Ahem.
My favourites are: include divorcing friends in your plans, don’t be judgemental, don’t assume you know who is “right” and who is “wrong”, and don’t insist on being given a [...]
how to handle your “fussy eater” child
Friday, May 16th, 2008I said before that my daughter is an amazing eater, and she is- knowledgeable and thoughtful about health issues, with a love of the best quality of everything and a healthy enjoyment of expensive chocolate, plus she is a great and talented cook herself.
My son, on the other hand, takes after me. Not in [...]
things I learned from being ill
Friday, April 18th, 2008I’m feeling better now, and convinced things will stay this way. Although, this has happened about once every three days for about the past month. But all that time I was surfing the net for ideas, trying out different diets (my symptoms being commonly food related, according to what the websites say), and learning new [...]
surviving major dental work: forget about pain, focus on comfort
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Gretchen says, get into a good mood before going to the dentist because it will hurt less. But really, going to the dentist shouldn’t hurt at all.
Like most people, I used to get a bit nervous about having treatment done. But a few weeks ago, I had the last one of a series of major [...]
insight of the day
Monday, March 17th, 2008Sure, there are moments when temptation is strong, but so-called discipline and willpower don’t get you out of those. You have to develop the ability to go hungry, in both a physical and emotional sense, because far too much of what we eat isn’t about satisfying bodily hunger.
Jackie Danicki
I hate the words “discipline” and [...]
take a nap
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008(I decided to blog more often, even if that means producing (even) less than heavyweight intellectual posts from now on. Although there was a longish post here about history yesterday, which is temporarily lost due to editing problems. I’ll restore that later.)
So, I finally gave up and decided to start taking a nap in the [...]
don’t have a stroke
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008I had a glass of wine at home and a margarita in a restaurant last night, and woke up at about 3am feeling like the inside of my brain was being eaten. Does that count as binge drinking? Either way, I won’t be combining those two anytime ever again.
Maybe I just narrowly avoided a stroke. [...]
unusual solutions
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008(Update: just added this link down the bottom, which should have been there before. It’s a very amusing Guardian article which I think sums up some of the uniquely British style of creativity that other nationalities don’t always get.)
One of the things that bugs me, is people making statements like “We’re all basically the same.” [...]
when should children drink?
Friday, February 8th, 2008Yes that does mean alcohol. I don’t know what is going on in Britain at the moment, as usual, although I am starting to accept its basic unfathomability as a culture, however if the author of this Telegraph piece is correct that her son’s behaviour at 13 is as everyday as she implies (and the [...]
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