To be perfectly honest, since my father's passing a little over two months ago, I haven't really grieved, because I've been so busy trying to manage and comfort my mother and her rollercoster of emotions. A year before my father, who was a chronically ill person, became gravely ill my mother wasn't in a good place. We all knew it; we felt it, we spoke about it in hushed tones and even engaged my … [Read more...]
I’m gaga for Roseanne’s NUTS, FINALLY a celebreality show that speaks to me
So what was I doing this past Wednesday night at 9pm/8c you ask? I was LAUGHING my ass off watching Roseanne's Nuts on Lifetime ...like literally laughing so hard that the tears were streaming down my face, and my husband suggested that I put down my food for the remainder of the episode lest I choke to death. I LOVE that Roseanne speaks her mind. PERIOD. She doesn't pretend to care … [Read more...]
No Resolutions
By Carolyn Edgar With every New Year comes New Year's resolutions: to lose weight, to quit smoking, to find true love, to go back to school to get or finish that degree, to learn a foreign language, to take a cooking class, to be a better parent/spouse, etc. Gyms and yoga studios are packed in the first few days of each January. It all settles down pretty quickly. In a couple of weeks, we'll … [Read more...]
As a society, are we simply desensitized to infidelity?
I am one of MANY women who read this week's NY Times Vows section, which essentially details a couple who found each other, while both were still married- and yet their undeniable attraction for each other could not be contained. Although they say, they never engaged in a physical relationship with each other while they were still married- after much consternation and internal examination on both … [Read more...]
No I didn’t marry my sugar daddy…
I really feel the need to clarify the title of this blog- as I've been "notified" that it insinuates that I'm a gold digger. Let me just make one thing clear-- if I was TRULY a gold digger- when I met my husband who... unlike the other physicians I had dated (um by the time I got married was likely half the staff at NYC's St. Luke's Roosevelt and Mt. Sinai)- he was NEVER one to wear his M.D. … [Read more...]