Storms Make For Page-Turning Plotlines
 As I write, it's a rainy day in Southern California, which is what passes for "a major storm" here but nothing like the paralyzing snowstorms in the Northeast. Wintry weather events are reminders of nature's power and our vulnerability despite climate-controlled environments, fossil-fuel-powered transport and electronically-dependent communications. But such storms were even more devastating in the past. Read More
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The Magic of Sex
Foods that have a reputation for stimulating sex are called aphrodisiacs, after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. You'd be surprised how many people, even the best educated, have a sneaking belief that they work -- or that one or two special ones do, anyhow. Just a few of the foods that have the reputation of making people better lovers are: garlic, liver, asparagus, chocolate (when your boyfriend brings you a box of candy he's not just being sweet), cucumbers, bananas, pomegranates, radishes, pineapples, celery, bird's nest soup (Chinese in origin with a formidable reputation in the West), onions, calves' brains, cola drinks, camel's milk, vanilla, ginger, and vitamin pills. Vitamin E is the most! A complete list would be impossible, for there are very few foods that someone, somewhere, sometime hasn't considered sexually stimulating. Read More
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The Girlfriend's Guide To Divorce
 According to statistics, 10% of the population in the United States is divorced and the average length of the divorce proceedings is 1 year. That's enough time to fit in 13 episodes of The Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, a new show that is premiering on Bravo. Read More
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"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. It's what makes the ride worthwhile." --Franklin P. Jones
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