"When darkness fell, excitementkissed the crowd and it made them wildIn the atmosphere of freaky holiday."~Simon and Garfunkel, "Save the Life of my Child" Image credit: Photo byfreefotouk on Flickr When I was working my very first real job out of college, a man walked in to a building down the street from my office. [...]
Posts under ‘Eliot Spitzer’
Is John Edwards a Sex Addict?
Last week, I asked you all to ask me anything (I'm still taking questions; keep them coming!), and I noticed that one question has been on many of your virtual lips: "Is John Edwards a sex addict?" And (on a related note): "Is everyone who has an affair a sex addict?" I'll take the second [...]
Choices
Finally! My followup on life, the universe and Silda Spitzer's choices.This is also posted at Two Women Blogging. Photo credit: Photo byshadowfax the second on Flickr My husband and I were having a discussion once about life, the universe and everything (not the book, although we've been known to discuss that too, but actual life, [...]
Silda Spitzer’s Message
This is also posted at Two Women Blogging Photo credit: Photo by MotherPie on Flickr I was driving to pick one of my kids up from school for a dental appointment when I caught the words "prostitution ring" (just those two words) on the car radio and turned up the volume to find out who [...]
The Junky’s Wife Teaches You Addict Math
Photo credit: Photo by Akash k on Flickr For your reading pleasure, I have asked the Junky's Wife if I could include some comments she made to me about the costs of addiction in relation to Eliot Spitzer. Her calculations, from what I experienced with my husband, are dead on and had me rolling on [...]
How Do You Know an Addict Is an Addict?
Quick Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or a mental health expert (but I do have a doctor around who will correct me if I'm wrong). What follows is what I've learned about the signs and symptoms of addiction and my own opinions on how to recognize it. Photo credit: Photo by mondoagogo on Flickr A [...]
Circles within Circles (or Understanding the Stars — and Eliot Spitzer)
Three weeks ago, Eliot Spitzer was Governor of New York and the model of an upstanding citizen. Two weeks ago, he became embroiled in scandal and admitted to hiring prostitutes. The media was all over the story: less dissecting it, than tearing it apart like a school of piranha. It boiled up and died down, [...]
