Prologue I have thought about what to do with the following material for the past seven years. I still agonize over decisions I made in spite of my very strict rule of “don’t look back”. Reading through these emails I relive the desperation I felt trying to pry 50 years of “secrets” out of my [...]
Text messaging has become an unstoppable phenomenon but how much is too much texting? As a media sociologist and grandmother, I am fascinated with it. What’s so important that one needs to be available and in touch at all times? If you’re a grandparent like me, you cherish every conversational-minute you get to be with [...]
For many of you this article will be too provocative, too disturbing and simply unpopular. For the faint of hearts, stop reading now. Beginning with the infamous 2008 indictment of Casey Anthony for the homicide of her beautiful toddler to the recent South Florida tragedies including the parents that brutally beat their three year-old child [...]
Some folks search for love all their lives and never find it. Some run into it in their teens and others when they’re seventy. Some strike it rich with their first love and others on their second marriage expedition. For me, it was the third time around that was the lucky charm. The younger my [...]
Get in where you fit in But where is that What mark should you make What path should you take You have a responsibility To shape our world in its entirety To bring awareness to our plight Sexism, racism, poor education and health care is our fight We live in modern times But are governed [...]
The Greatest People you never meet and the Ones you meet and cherish! It’s amazing the ties that bind people, some they’ve never actually met. Technology has made communication possible on a level I’m certain even the developers of such devices are astounded by. We build relationships with strangers that suddenly become friends and before [...]
Like most women, I have spent countless hours engaged in discussion and debate on life and love with the women I am closest to. After a particularly grueling conversation with a close friend who was yet again having trouble in her marriage, it occurred to me that she was once again playing the role of a victim, biding her time in the bad relationship as she peeked around a corner, desperately waiting for her knight in shining armor to make his appearance.
by Maria Costello Let words do what lips cannot flow into us warm as milk our mouths the petals of a child. Let the heart see what eyes merely perceive the heart is a golden angel asters entwined in her robe of jewels. Who am I to contemplate mysteries of soul where we really go at [...]
Should we always tell our partners the truth? What can we, or should we keep to ourselves? And if we do have a dark secret, or if something has in fact happened to us that we are sure our partner would never accept and might be hurt as a result? Even if it didn’t happen, [...]
