Patricia Pondering Last week, we flirted with our husbands. With luck, they’ll return the favour this week. I don’t know if I’m speaking for every woman with the ideas I list here, but I did gather them from a hefty sample of females in long-term relationships. I welcome comments or suggestions and mention that I’ve already heard two important ones: Bob Godley said, “I wouldn’t want to be in love with a woman who wasn’t in love with me.” That’s so true. Unrequited love is only ‘romantic’ in novels, not in real-life partnerships. If the person you’re married to, or in a long-term relationship with, doesn’t appreciate you and/or is with you for some self-seeking reason of his or … [Read more...]
Seven Ways to Flirt With Your Husband
After the fires in Greece, lost young girls, devastating storms and several other tragedies that have taken place in the world in the last week, not the least of which seems to be, if we can judge by the tremendous newspaper coverage it's been getting here in the States, the demise of Britney Spears pop career, I thought I should lighten things up a little with this week’s blog. Hence I present to you, my neighbours and friends, “Seven Ways to Flirt with Your Husband.” This might be of interest only to female readers, but I hope men will review this, too. In case I’ve got any of it wrong, I welcome being set straight by the male population. Any insight into … [Read more...]
An Open Letter to a Pyromaniac in Greece
Ancient Olympia by RobW on Flickr Perhaps one of the ‘conspiracy theories’ is right. You might be a “domestic terrorist” seeking to overthrow the government by creating chaos, as the officials, like officials everywhere, every time there’s a disaster anywhere, ‘chicken-little it’, shouting, “the sky is falling…but it’s not my fault!” You might be a landowner who got screwed by one of the capricious government edicts, that says you can construct a home one day and then declares your building site a ‘forest-protected area’ the next. You might even be a cold-blooded opportunist, who expects you can now purchase ruined land on the cheap and … [Read more...]
A Dark and Handsome Italian
The writings of two of my fellow bloggers prompted me to resurrect this poem I wrote, “A Dark and Handsome Italian,” which was published sometime in the 1990’s in New Press Magazine. Foxsydee often writes fun, light-hearted posts, which I thoroughly enjoy. This poem, I hope, is fun and light-hearted (and very tongue-in-cheek.) Lezlee has been posting writings about her recent trip to Italy, one of my favourite countries and the place from where my family originates. So, ladies… this is for you both, with my thanks for blogging. Oh- one more thing - the ‘dark and handsome Italian’ in the photo, is played by one of my sons, who’ll probably disown me for posting his photograph , especially in … [Read more...]
Some Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Eighteen
Patricis Pondering 1. The football quarterback you sighed over all through high school English class, will usually be the first guy to go bald, get fat and have a bypass. You won’t recognize him at your tenth-year high school reunion. 2. Generally speaking, teachers, doctors, clergy and police officers are no smarter, no more compassionate, trustworthy nor dedicated to their work, than the rest of the population. Sometimes they’re even less so. 3. You should judge who your true friends are not only by the sympathy they express when something very bad happens to you, but by the genuine joy they express when something very good happens to you. 4. The Captain and Tenille were wrong. … [Read more...]
The Emperor Has New Clothes
It’s never been proven that Barry Bonds takes steroids.” That’s a statement I hear a lot in the San Francisco Bay Area and it brings to mind another statement I heard a lot a few years back: “There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” The connection between these two statements is this: depending on whether they were for Bonds or Bush, people rebutted them both with this declaration: “All evidence points to the contrary!” We can all be so clear sighted, can’t we? As long as we’re talking about ‘the other team.’ But if he’s one of ‘us,’ we’re capable of ignoring facts that are as obvious as an elephant on a bus. We don’t accept “reasonable doubt” when it’s not convenient for ‘us.’ … [Read more...]
Poker Part II : Nurses, Pimps, Prams and Rita
'Poker Pete,' Patricia and Rita Rudner So I flew to Las Vegas to be with “Poker Pete” for the last few days of the WSOP. Las Vegas is a perfect spot for an ‘A’ type personality like myself to go on a short holiday. There is nothing else to do except relax and have fun. After all the work the past mon The first day, I hung out by the pool and just soaked up the sun. I had one of those frozen drinks that they stick a fresh strawberry in, so that you can let yourself be deluded into thinking that you’re only having fruit. But I didn’t let myself worry about the calories, or how much it cost (twelve dollars for a tiny little cup, which is ridiculous) because I was on holiday. I also … [Read more...]
Poker Star
Tn-PokerStars-Holdem I listen to Pete (my husband) talk about poker the same way he listens to me talk about Harry Potter. I have no clue why its so important to him, I just know it is. Very, very important. Therefore, just like he sits there and nods his head, making sure he keeps eye contact with me, so’s I don’t catch on to how bored he is when I say things like, “Dementors,” “Dumbledore” and “Diggory,” I return the courtesy when he repeats certain phrases endlessly, such as “down the river,” “on the button,” “the flop,” “bad beats” and my personal favourite, which I even put in my new book, giving hubs credit for the quote, “Because in poker, sometimes stupid wins.” So far, only … [Read more...]