Originally published at the Second Road on September 28, 2008. Last night, Mark and I went out to dinner. We had a wonderful evening, eating dinner at a favorite restaurant and browsing a local bookstore. We talked about politics and the personal struggles and triumphs (large and small) we'd had during the week. In many [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Unmanageability in Burn After Reading
I've been working on Step 1 and thinking about unmanageability in my own life and had one of those lovely moments of coincidence last weekend when my husband Mark and I went to see Burn After Reading, a funny, clever movie just drowning in unmanageable lives.WARNING: Spoilers from here on out!(See, I bet you wish [...]
New Online Support Group for Sex Addicts
Image credit: Photo bynz(dave) on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons I wanted to let you all know that Ken at My Sex Addiction has started Sex Addict Support, an online support group for sex addicts. This group is for addicts only. Partners are welcome to join the The Junkys' Wives Club, which now has close to [...]
Unspectacular Haikus
J-Online asks forsix unspectacular quirks.It's a meme* haiku! 1.I rarely wear socks.The seams are uncomfortable,my feet get too hot. 2.Fluorescent lights hurt.Sometimes you'll see me wearingsunglasses indoors. 3.I'll eat the same thingevery day for days on endfor breakfast and lunch. 4.Sometimes I worrymy laptop video camlets people see me. 5.It doesn't help thatI take my [...]
Hiding Behind Lies
Image credit: Photo by FUNKYAH on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons If you ask someone who loves an addict what the most painful thing about addiction is, the answer you'll hear most often is: the lies. The lies. The lies. Oh, the lies, lies, lies, lies! They hurt and they burn and they sting. Most [...]
John McCain Hypnotized Me
This post is the sixth in a series on how I came to be where I am around the current election,and the second in a series of posts about the candidates themselves. I was going to do Barack Obama next, but a comment Willow made aboutBill Clinton's powerful magnetism made me think John McCain should [...]
I Am Hillary Clinton
This post is the fifth in a series on how I came to be where I am around the current election,and the first in a series of posts about the candidates themselves. I fell in love with Hillary Clinton during the 1992 presidential election. I hadn't been out of college long and was just starting [...]
Working Out my Crazies
This post is the fourth in a series on how I came to be where I am around the current election. I should also note that there are still two comments on my last post that I want to respond to,but since I was finding myself a bit distracted, I'm temporarily moving on and hoping [...]
Review of The Sexually Confident Wife
When I received an e-mail from the publishers of The Sexually Confident Wife asking if I wanted to review it,* I was skeptical. After all, "sexual confidence" in our society usually implies acting like a porn star. I imagined a lot of Sexual Codependents' Magazine (ahem, I mean Cosmo Magazine) type fluff on "10 Sex [...]
Forget I Said Anything
Do you know that in all the times I read Step 1 over the past five years — including last week when I was working Step 1, and all the times Step 1 was read in meetings, and all the times my husband and I discussed Step 1, and even in my writings about Step [...]
