Category: age & aphrodite

Brown’s long magazine life a “Sex-cess”

Long-time editor of Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown, whose  magazine mantra metamorphised the sex lives of modern women, has died in a New York hospital after a short illness. She was aged 90. The author of 1962 best-seller Sex and the Single Girl reckoned if women weren’t sex objects, they were in trouble and while good […]

Thursday August 16th, 2012 in age & aphrodite, womens lives | 3 Comments »

Zany Joan breaks boundaries

On and off-camera behaviour of zany comedian Joan Rivers invariably borders on the ridiculous, but news that she handcuffed herself to a shopping trolley sets up a new shock. A snippet of news from the United States reports that Joan was outraged when she discovered that a Costco store in a Los Angeles suburb refused […]

Thursday August 16th, 2012 in age & aphrodite, womens lives | No Comments »

Police attend Joan’s protest

On and off-camera behaviour of zany comedian Joan Rivers invariably borders on the ridiculous, but news that she handcuffed herself to a shopping trolley sets new heights. A snippet of news from the United States reports that Joan was outraged when she discovered that a Costco store in a Los Angeles suburb refused to sell […]

Saturday August 11th, 2012 in age & aphrodite | No Comments »

Local Community Life Lifts the Sad Spirit

The first rule for travelling with grief (because it is impossible to shrug off  the process) is to get out of the house regularly. Friends have been fabulous taking me to small social events, but it is a bigger step to take oneself out of the house and do something alone. Puppy Oscar has been […]

Saturday July 21st, 2012 in womens lives | No Comments »

Big family, birthday fun

Today is my birthday and it is also my only sister’s birthday. We were both born today, July 15, but 16 years apart.  She is my baby sister, which is why I have invited myself to her house for dinner.  My sister’s house is in darkness when I arrive for our birthday dinner and  I am […]

Thursday July 19th, 2012 in my journal, womens lives | No Comments »

Motherhood yields rich human harvest

    My week has been filled with wonderful family activities to gladden the saddest heart. The three grand-children are visiting from Queensland with their mother, my daughter Serena and how sweet it is to have children sleeping once more under roof.  My home is noisy and cluttered and daughter has taken over kitchen cooking […]

Tuesday July 10th, 2012 in womens lives | No Comments »