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( weekend musings )

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I've been looking through my husband's textbook from the art history class he took his first quarter at school, and I noticed something. In the majority of nudes of women throughout history, including in depictions of the goddess Venus/Aphrodite, women are shown having relatively small breasts (by today's standards), softer, rounder stomachs, and ( Read more... )

( Birth control questions/complaints )

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I am waist-deep in morning mist that hugs the road, my jogging shoes crunching dew-kissed gravel beneath my feet. Already, I feel the flirtation of winter in the mountains ( Read more... )

[This post is inspired by
1) Finishing William Kittredge’s memoir this afternoon, and
2) My mysterious, anonymous, Missoula reader…]

Oh, I remember Missoula.

It wasn’t like we had no place better to go. It’s just that Missoula was the best place to go. As an undergrad in Walla Walla, I was a hard and fast twenty-minute mountain bike ride to the ( Read more... )

H, a 42-year-old writer, lives in Notting Hill, West London, with his executive wife C and their sons Constantin, 12, and Ivan, ten.

The lies started when my eldest son was less than ten months old.( Read more... )

There was a study done not so long ago, but so long ago I don’t remember who did the study except that it was a legitimate organization. I think it was the PEW Research Center, but don’t quote me on that. The study showed that in older (straight) couples the men were more likely to cheat than the women. In younger couples the women cheated on ( Read more... )