When you first start dating, you present your best side. You know, choosing clothing ensembles carefully (colors coordinate, no holes, no stains), styling your hair in a celebrity do, checking your breath for killer halitosis, squelching a tiny burp, trying not to rip a big one in front of your potential one-and-only. Years later, when …
It’s every parent’s nightmare: Your child walks in while you’re “wrestling” with your spouse. Has it happened to you? My mother-in-law had moved and her house was empty, so our family stayed there during a brief vacation. Hubby and I took the master bedroom and sacked out on an air mattress, while the kids snuggled …
When I read the Twilight series (yes, I read all four books – including the long passages of Bella pining away incessantly for Edward), it seemed that we were setting up our teenage girls for incredibly unrealistic expectations. Here was Edward, perfect Prince Charming, with only a little paleness and a couple of fangs as …
In college, I picked up a copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence. Was it as steamy as they say? Oh yeah. (Although perhaps today’s Harlequins could cause Mr. Lawrence to blush.) What bothered me most, however, was the author’s presumption that Mrs. Chatterley would be turned on by some guy talking about …
I know that James Bond is an unabashed sexist philanderer. And I know that the proper Christian response to such sexual flippancy is an appalled gasp or a tsk-tsk shake of the head. I also know that the women who donned such silly names as Honey Ryder (Dr. No), Pussy Galore (Goldfinger), and Plenty O’Toole …
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