Although I live in NYC, going into Manhattan each day via express bus or via the Bridge ala Working Girl- is not something I relish, especially during the oh so crowded month of March. Sure Sarah Jessica Parker made running the streets of Manhattan in six inch stilettos look glamorous, but the reality of it--I'm guessing- Ms. Parker has got some JACKED UP feet. I spent the better part of … [Read more...]
3 Things This Wife Wants her Husband To Do
After 18 years of marriage I am past the point of needing highly stylized dates at four star restaurants and baubles the size of small countries. Of course that is not to say that I don't love good food and jewelry- rather it is that my husband needn't make reservations at a five star white-gloved Sushi eatery to keep me content. After all this time waking up and seeing the very same hands give … [Read more...]
Reasons Trashtalking Your Spouse is a Bad Thing
When I first got married I had a lot of fire in my belly. And I will even admit that I was immature. I had no real understanding of what being married entailed. I still thought of myself as an individual and not as a partner in both good and bad with this person who I now called my husband. I mean rationally I knew once married we were inextricably linked to one another but emotionally I was still … [Read more...]
Men don’t worry and why women could learn a thing or two from them
I worry about everything. I am a worrier. I think in worrying I believe I am asserting some power over the the outcome of the issue I am worrying about. Or perhaps in worrying I believe I can have some power over that which I feel powerless, as if the actual act of worrying is in some way keeping what I am worried about in check- and letting the gds of fate know I deserve the outcome I desire … [Read more...]
Did your husband care about the gender of your baby?
When we were about four months pregnant with our now 15-year-old daughter we were driving to that all important let's find out the sex of the baby sonogram so we could fully entrench ourselves in those arduous blue versus pink decisions. Our car ride, normally punctuated by my incessant questions, was eerily filled with silence as we were both very much wrapped up in our own thoughts. The truth … [Read more...]
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