BAM! ZAP! THWAK! Holy holidays, Batman! I flipped on the boob tube Halloween afternoon and what flashed across the screen? Christmas commercials – already!?! I’m all for boosting GNP, but do I have to fight the holiday blues this soon? For many of us, this premature, picture-perfect presentation of hyped-up-happy times is either irritating as […]
Sex and the Divorced Dad, Part Deux
Awhile back I asked for input from divorced dads willing to talk about sex and dating. I was curious (naturally), and wanted to see how their experience stacked up to the female side of the solar system. I make the distinction between divorced dads and other single dads because, let’s be honest, divorce is often […]
Amante à Paris ou « Maman t’as pas ri ! » (La vie est une saloperie !)
Amante à Paris ou « Maman t’as pas ri ! » (La vie est une saloperie !) version anglaise / English version / © D A Wolf Hier soir, j’ai reçu un coup de fil sur mon portable – le numéro, je ne l’ai pas reconnu. Mais le pays, si – 33. Et moi, aux […]
French Sex vs Proper Parenting
Yesterday, late afternoon, my cell flashed a number I didn’t recognize, but with a country code that I did. 33. France. That fine, flourishing, familiar place where I have friends – and lovers. The country that is home to my heart, where the streets energize me, the wine transports me, the art – even more […]
Flash Fire Sex: Are You in Love with Love?
Confusing sex with love…
Married Sex! (An Oxymoron?)
Furtive phone calls, marital manipulations, stats on sex in marriage.
“You’re trouble,” he said.
“You’re trouble,” he said. I didn’t know the gentleman, but he’s right. Yes, I am. It was a brief exchange, yesterday – just a moment with no names – but filled with the fleeting flutter of engagement, and a little smile, the kind that lasts through long days, lightening them so they become more manageable. […]
Remarriage Rules of Grammar: Past Imperfect, Future Conditional?
Oh, those French tenses! Imperfect, simple future, future perfect… If only life were that easy! I heard from a 40-year old colleague recently, about her upcoming remarriage. It got me thinking about pasts perfect and imperfect, present imperatives, and futures – of all sorts. And then of course – ghosts of marriage past. The woman […]
Hard dates, soft dates, and other such matters…
There are hard dates, soft dates, and other such matters. Okay, okay – I know what you’re thinking, and yes, I do love to play with words. Isn’t wordplay a most delicious part of foreplay? Don’t you appreciate a double entendre now and then, or even occasionally, a… triple? Well then. Let’s look at the […]
Better Sex Life? Cosmetic Surgery
Looking for a better sex life? Try this. Think those people keeping the plastic surgery business booming are going under the knife to crop that crooked nose? Think again! It’s boobs, booty, and more boobs. Reality TV, ads, films, internet dating, your local Whole Foods – everywhere you look are examples of nip this and […]