Saturday, July 8, 2006
Sex Shortens Pregnancy...Or Does It?
Not that this does me any good now, but: Having sex late in pregnancy does not help trigger labor and delivery, experts report. In fact, a new study has found just the opposite: Women who were sexually active in the final three weeks of their pregnancies stayed pregnant slightly longer, delivering...
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Friday, July 7, 2006
Promote Your Book While Supporting Literacy
I am posting this on behalf of a trusted buddy: Hello everyone, I am taking part in this year's Muskoka Novel Marathon, which is a fringe event to the Huntsville Festival of the Arts (Huntsville, Ontario, Canada). The money raised is being donated to the Muskoka Literacy Network, and this year...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Sexy Older Woman
I remember hearing that men hit their sexual peak during their 20's, but women don't hit their peak until middle age. Well, I always assumed middle age was the mid-30's. Apparently I was wrong. According to the SBS: It says Australian women between the age of 25 and 44 have less sex than those in...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Men Need a Reminder
This is a note to all men everywhere. Apparently, some of you, and you know who I am talking to, have forgotten one small fact. In today's society where men and women are both as apt to work outside the home as not, you are not doing your woman a favor by helping around the house. It is as much your...
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Saturday, June 3, 2006
Dress Rehearsal
Bailey is the brunette. Get this, the lyrics that we were given Wednesday to prepare the kids for a Sunday recital is missing an entire stanza.
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How a Writer Knows She Is Losing It
A writer, namely me, knows she is on the verge of senility when she goes to her short stories folder, find, a story there that she recognizes but can't remember if she wrote it or not, so has to ask the person who edited it who wrote it. Thank goodness for the Word track changes feature.
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Friday, June 2, 2006
Psycho Psychic Gets Positive Reviews
Who would have thought it? I sure didn't, but apparently the reviewers who have taken the time to read the book have actually found it worthy of the paper it is printed on. Kaye Trout's Book Reviews Book Ideas
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Thursday, May 25, 2006
Dance Recital Blues
See if this adds up: Monthly fee $35 Costume $45 Recital fee $35 Dress Rehearsal fee $35 Tickets for 4 $28 Total One smiling girl in a piece of crap costume who gets centerstage for 10 seconds. I wouldn't mind the fees if the costume hadn't come to me looking like a three year old had sewn it and no...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Where Did I Go Wrong?
Get this. The Whim's Place Flash Fiction Contest is #1 on Google for the term 'flash fiction contest'. You'd think I was doing something right, wouldn't you? Now get this. If you go to Yahoo and look up 'egg burps', this blog holds the #1 spot and my Whim's Place blog the #6 spot. Where did I go...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
10 Things to Remember About Vegas
Everything is farther away than it appears, including your room. Whatever you budget for food during your trip, multiply by three. Packing a tuxedo is a waste of luggage space. Figure that by the time you have checked in through security, waited for plane, boarded your plane, taken off, potentially...
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