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Humpty Dumpty for President: Governor Christie, Take Notes from Bill Clinton

April 7, 2011 By 3 Comments

Talk is spreading throughout our Garden State and abroad that Governor Christie knows he can win the U.S. Presidential election. Which year, he is not saying.

This is what I am saying. I am currently an overweight mom of three kids. If you calculate my BMI (Body Mass Index) as determined by the National Institute of Health, I am not just overweight I am OBESE (by one point, for the record).

Throughout my childhood I was overweight, losing pounds periodically.  Only when I went to therapy and properly dealt with my issues and past traumas did all the weight finally shed from my frame, revealing my authentic self… a self formerly protected and guarded by the fat surrounding by body and soul.

When I entered my PhD program at an athletic and slim size six (at a healthy weight for my height) I hoped to develop a psychologically and spiritually healthy weight loss and maintenance program. I know firsthand that being fat… being overweight… being obese screams, “My life is not balanced physically, mentally or emotionally. I am out of control.” [Read more...]

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The Bachelor: Intelligent Women Need Not Apply

March 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I have a guilty pleasure, I watch ABC’s The Bachelor.  (Ok, I really have two guilty pleasures. I also like to watch MTV’s Jersey Shore, but that’s about my hometown, so it doesn’t count.)

Tonight is the finale of The Bachelor, Season 15.  I need to be honest, I’ve never watched a Bachelor or Bachelorette show, not even one episode.  But like the masses, I was drawn into the trailers of Brad Womack, Season 7′s sleazy bachelor, who left two women standing at the altar.  Oh wait, they weren’t at the altar, they were at a sunset lit gazebo and neither was offered an engagement ring.  So when this bar owner from Austin, Texas returned to say he was a changed man ready to make a committment this time around, I was a SUCK-AH!  I was hooked.

Now my dear reader, I am about to be judgemental and completely Jersey as I describe the utter STUPIDITY that is called The Bachelor, and the mostly dumb Bachelorettes.  So reader, if you don’t want to hear my complaints and stereotypes, please stop here.   First, let’s start with Brad. [Read more...]

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Top 10 Reasons Why I SUCK at Being a Mom… Sometimes

January 21, 2011 By 29 Comments

After two weeks from hell, including the sudden death of one of my closest friends from high school (Bill, may your soul rest in peace and may your spirit shine in the people who still love you here on earth), I am in a way sucky kind of mood.   On top of this, we have all been terribly sick, which caused me to miss the funeral services.

Barracuda Baby was the first to show signs of illness.  I have renamed her Typhoid Mary.  Sick for only one night with a fever, a line of victims lay in her wake. 

I got the flu the day after Typhoid Mary recovered.  I had a 102 fever for two days.   Still three days out from the beginning of my antibiotics, I carry the remnants of a sinus or more likely, head-cavity, infection.  The boys got sick two days after me, one with puking and the other without.  Both are almost better now.  My husband suffered for one afternoon of chills and fever, but remained virtually unscathed with the help of early antibiotic intervention.  Through all this, Typhoid Mary toddled her way around the house, demanding attention, as her victims writhed on the couch.

So, while putting her to bed last night, knowing full well that after caring all day for three kids (2 of whom were sick) that I would go straight to bed myself, I lay next to her and reflected upon the past couple of days.   And I thought about how I was snippy and annoyed and angry and upset and sad and how I am not the best mom at times.

So, here is it… my Top 10 Reasons Why I Suck at Being a Mom…Sometimes… [Read more...]

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Talk To Me, Anderson Cooper

October 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I think Anderson Cooper is one smart, foxy dude. I don’t actually watch his show, but I still enjoy seeing his baby blues when I flip by en route to an irresistible re-run of What Not To Wear. I also have a friend whose husband looks exactly like him. I mean, seriously, he could be AC’s lost twin.

Check this out. Isn’t that cool?!

Anyway, it caught my eye when internet stories started to bubble last week about Cooper’s reaction to the derogatory use of the term “gay” in a movie trailer. “We’ve got to do something to make those words unacceptable because those words are hurting kids. Someone else I talked to recently said that the words people use and the things people say about other kids online, it enters into their internal dialogue,” Cooper was quoted as saying in a discussion with Ellen DeGeneres. “And when you’re a kid, it can change the way you see yourself and the way you think about yourself, and the worth that you give to yourself. I think we need to really focus on what language we’re using.”

Well said, Coop! In the ongoing discussion about the suicide of New Jersey college student Tyler Clementi, and other recent–and completely unnecessary–tragedies involving gay teens, he makes an important point about “internal dialogue” which applies, of course, to all of us, no matter our gender or sexual orientation.

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