How to Start Knitting for Stress Relief
Why did I start knitting? Because my mind was doing back flips from work-related stress that I couldn’t escape and I had a desperate need to feel as if I was accomplishing something concrete while I freaked out. So I signed up for a knitting class at my neighborhood knitting emporium (now a Starbucks!). I [...]
Pleasure Worship with Mama Gena
Did you happen to hear they’re bringing sexy back? Got the thousand yard stare of the passionless? Pitiful dried husk of your former self? You don’t have to stay anhedonic and snappily unhappy. The delightful pleasure-mad persona of one Regena Thomashauser, AKA Mama Gena,is a 40ish hausfrau on a mission to get women to drop [...]
How Girls Ruled at Kentucky Oaks Race
The Kentucky Oaks Race (Fillies only) takes place the day before the Kentucky Derby. It is truly a day all about da girls. And on a day when everything revolves around the female of the species, our latest Excellent Adventure was no exception. We set out for Churchill Downs decked out in new frocks and [...]
The Spiritual Pleasure Behind It’s a Wonderful Life
Something hasn’t been right with the holidays since It’s a Wonderful Life fell out of public domain and was scooped up by NBC which persists in grinchily allowing one, or at the most, two airings per Christmas season. The movie used to run wall to wall on every tiny channel across cable land. At any [...]
How Not to Care About Other Peoples Opinions
People will always have opinions about you. You will please them, enrage them, annoy them, delight them. If you tried to keep up with all these reactions, you would drive yourself crazy. That is why most of them take place without our knowledge. This is good. Problems result when you pay too much attention to [...]
Inside Every Woman There’s a Beautiful Witch
Of all the archetypal icons we can invoke in our lives, the witch is surely the most powerful. Yeah, we may be acting like Athena when we ask for a raise with imperious confidence or modeling Juno when we go ballistic, but the witch is the uber-identity. The witch is the wise woman, the crone [...]