ESSAYS & ARTICLES
Finally, The Poet Laureate is A Woman!
To be a goddess looking down at women over the centuries has been trying at various times-but positively joyous over the past few days. …
Emotional Waterboarding
I know times are tough. I know everyone’s out of work. But we’re getting just too tough on our lovers. I’ve been hearing from men …
The Best of Spring
It’s a tough time for so many people, and not only economically. Love is so much harder in these hard times; our nerves are raw, …
The First 100 Days Of LOVE–Why, Just as in Politics, They Matter
Today’s the day the country is celebrating the first 100 days of our new President. From my lofty perch, I think he’s doing an astonishingly …
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On Breaking Up Via E-Mail (No, No, No!)
What on earth has happened to etiquette, down there? Whither kindness–and courage? I ask because two friends just, over the weekend, asked me the same question: “May …
"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 …
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Exhausted in Your Relationship? Listen Up!
My dear earth sisters and daughters, it has come to my attention that there are too many–really, many too many–relationships that are leaving women drained, …
Cheating On The Cheap?
What’s the one kind of date where you don’t go Dutch, ever? What’s the one kind of date where glamour is considered crucial? What’s the …
Communication Breakdown 101
Here’s one small but typical example of what happens to a man and a woman on a lovely date when she talks about her feelings. And I don’t even …
Sex, Lies, and…Anxiety
I’ve been talking to women about sex and want to share three sex lies we all seem, at one point or another, to tell …