The Rules

Perhaps you know the expression from the movie Hustle and Flow, “It’s hard out here for a Pimp”? Well, let’s just say, it’s not so easy out here for a non-monogamous woman either. You run into difficulties untold. There is no “you are here” map- everything is on the fly. I mean, The Rules -don’t [...]

Posted on 9 May 2012 | 4:51 pm

Notes from the Non-Monogamous Edge

A few musings and discoveries from a woman recently unleashed, unhinged and undone. Uncomfortable Discovery Number 1 Most men are terrible in bed- Now that I am sleeping with more than one guy and now that I don’t have to convince myself that this is as good as it gets in order to get love [...]

Posted on 8 May 2012 | 2:17 pm

One Man, Many Bodies

There was a contraption that Amelia Erhardt’s people strapped her into, a kind of flight simulator. It had no windows and it spun three hundred and sixty degrees. After whirling around for minutes, the machine stopped. There, in the dark, perhaps hanging upside down, men with clipboards yelled into her and asked, “Okay, what’s your [...]

Posted on 5 May 2012 | 7:47 pm

Back-room Woman

When a nervous nelly woman asked my Rabbi about the “dangers” of Kabbalah, wide eyed and tight lipped, he said simply, “Once you’ve seen a lawless land you don’t necessarily want to come back.” To my estimation, religions go in two directions. Getting you out. And getting you back in.  The “spritiual” aspect or esoteric [...]

Posted on 29 April 2012 | 12:08 pm