I Remember Walter Cronkite, Part 2
My 1985 interview with Walter Cronkite, part 2.
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I Remember Walter Cronkite, Part One
Only 25 years ago–it was in 1985 (a mere moment ago in the life of your Love Goddess!)–I spoke with Walter Cronkite about his wife, his work, his recent retirement, his feelings about the environment, the military, and aging. I don’t usually share my magazine interviews unless they’re about love, but in this case, I share …
Trust Your Gut When Dating Online
When Angela “met” Tim online—that is, when he first responded to her profile—she got a fluttery feeling in her stomach that she wasn’t sure was excitement or warning. He liked her photo—could they go out that night? No? Why not? She was beautiful for her age, he said, and what’s more, he was handsome and …
"Till Death Us Do…" er, No, "Till We No Longer Care"
In her book review of Andrew J. Cherlin’s interesting book, The Marriage-Go-Round, the first question The New York Times book reviewer, Dinitia Smith, asks in Monday’s review, is: Do Americans get married too much? She asks this because we have one of the highest rates of marriage of any Western country-and also a divorce rate …
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What to do about graying pubic hair?
Q: I’m sleeping with a man after not sleeping with any man for, oh, five years. I’m a mature woman–in my 50s–and realize that the hair on my woo-woo (as my mother called it) has faded. Some of it is even very faded–like, white. What can I do? A: Ah, you will be back to …
My 11-Day Plan for V-Day! Get Ready for Sex
Okay, my earthly darlings, you’re dating again after years of not having sex–for whatever reason you were not having it. That’s terrific! But you know, of course, that being a lover in your twenties is different from being a mature lover years later at 40, 50 or 60, not only for the obvious reasons–fewer possible …
To Bed or Not To Bed: That is the Question
Ah, just when the Reverend Ed Young suggests that parishioners have daily sex for one week (as he did last week; see my blog, “The Sex Challenge”) the writer Lauren Slater suggests, in today’s New York Times Style Section) that married couples be given a reprieve from the focus on sex; and that she, for …
Putting The "Spark" Back in a Relationship….part 2
We're talking once again about the old saw that couples must keep the "spark" in relationships. In fact, the idea of infusing "spark" into a relationship only makes me celestially anxious. It's as if we're supposed to reinvent a comfortable relationship into one that has an "edge"–or one, rather, that once had us on edge. …
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Where The Spark Has Gone, part 1
Yesterday I heard it again: someone speaking about her marriage as "boring." My first instinct when I hear this about marriage and boredom is always to wonder if the couple has stopped talking. For I've long found that when talk goes, sex often follows. (Sex is, after all, a conversational connection, using bodies …