Our precious friend, Hugh Kearnley of Glasgow, Scotland, died suddenly of a heart attack on Saturday at the tender age of 56. It was a sad day for DH and me. I had wrtten about my special feelings for Hughie here in "Love on ADT: My Hughie And Me," and "The Kiss of Life." I [...]
Dear husband recently underwent 40 salvage radiation treatments (IMRT), and each time he had to lie on a table with a hard plastic "bodycast" resting on his nether parts, his tush exposed. The mold was supposed to help the computer target the right spots. Lucky for DH, his rear has been crafted to perfection by [...]
Recently, because of "Women's Equality Day," I have seen some questions about matriarchal societies. Do they even exist? The Dutch naturalist Frans de Waal believes they do: He cites our close relatives, the bonobos, as an example. Talking about our oversexed cousins is always fun. But people are starting to challenge de Waal's research. There [...]
Also on the subject of "Women's Equality Day": There are three things I learned online in the past year. 1) Women like sex. (2) Old people have sex (in the paper last week); and (3) Men are nicer than we think. Nurturing, for example. My husband gave me a poem that had been published in [...]
We need to talk about sex. That's never easy, but this is an emergency: A professor and long-time PC patient I've spoken to who is familiar with research about sex and prostate cancer told me that *50% of the time* couples will incur serious damage to their marriag after the man has had treatment for [...]