Most guides say that if you wait to talk about menstruation with your child until she has her first period, you are waiting too late. That is a bit of a stretch when menstruation begins at ages 7 or 8. One thing that I’ve done in my home is allow my daughter to see my menstruation products; after all, as I potty trained her and she modeled me, she saw them anyway. Simple explanations like, “Big girls bleed every month and these catch the blood,” and, “Mommy’s body bleeds to help it stay ready for a baby,” have worked for me in this light. My daughter ultimately starts asking if we can have another baby, of course; she’s much more interested in a potential sibling than her mother’s period.

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Women have always been thought of as “the weaker sex." Now the world is finally becoming aware that women are no longer weak and are also taking charge of their lives.

In the book and the movie “Eat, Pray, Love,” one woman takes an enormous risk by getting a divorce and traveling the world alone in search of herself. Traveling worldwide may seem extreme to some, but to really find herself this woman felt that she had to gain distance from all that was comfortable for her.

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Well, not heeding the warning of scientists, poo-pooing Al Gore and other prophets of climate change, ignoring climate change science and research, and listening to deniers sowing doubts, is returning a bleak and bitter early harvest.

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Trailer Review

I watched the trailer for the the sci-fi thriller "Skyline," It is labeled as a trailer. But it is a teaser. One minute thirty three seconds of a teaser. I read the synopsis put out by Universal Studios -- "strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth."

Being a sci-fi fan from way back, ever since I watched "The Day The Earth Stood Still," (the 1951 version, the good one), I said WOW!

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Since first starting to write this post the title for the article I am citing has changed. I am not sure what scares me more - the fact that the media outlets are downplaying on what is a very IMPORTANT healthcare message... or that we have about 10 years left to live as we have been with antibiotics (as they are a big factor to the lives we currently enjoy).

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Straight up, y'all, I was really disappointed by this book.  It was lying on a cart at the library at the end of an aisle, as if it was calling to me!  One glance at the title and I was hooked.  Who wouldn't want to… um… do it yourself psychic power?

Nonsensical title aside, the cover promises "practical tools and techniques for awakening your natural gifts."  From this I expected, you know.  Practical tools and techniques.

Instead, O'Sullivan spends fully half of the book explaining preparations you should take.  Meditation, opening chakras - basically, an awful lot of "sitting quietly and thinking about things."  I imagine that if you really did follow all of the rituals and proscribed meditations, you could easily spend every day fully booked with that kind of thing.


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Pulling A Steven-Slater: It's In The Way You Quit Your Job

Sometimes the job gets to the best of workers, especially when the job requires dealing with the public, and among the public are more than a few very difficult customers. I've been there.

Yesterday morning, Steven Slater, a flight attendant at Jet Blue Airline, came to the point when he said enough is enough and became an instant Internet folk hero.

Who hasn't had days like Steven Slater and who, working in the service field, haven't had to deal with a difficult customer or two and wanted to pull a Steven-Slater?

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Eat, Pray, LoveI haven’t read “Eat, Pray, Love”  by Elizabeth Gilbert and I am on the fence about whether or not to see the movie starring Julia Roberts. Enough people have told me about the book that I feel like I know it already- a woman seeks out salvation and finds herself in an Ashram in India.



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I Seeee You...At least, in the future, it’s possible that your clothes could stalk your or spy on you.

Scientists are currently working on some kind of “smart clothes” that will be able to not only see and hear, but also speak. It’s just what we all need—something to talk back when we talk to ourselves.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is using a process akin to the processing of saltwater taffy (believe it or not) to make these “intelligent fibers.”

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Potato HeadI just realized that a friend of mine is an EQ genius at relationships-she recently returned from a trip to tropics with her husband and discovered a way to stop any minor arguments on their trip. They’ve both traveled before, both for business trips and small adventures around this country and others, and she was concerned before the trip began that they might fight or bicker about where to go or what to do.


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