August 2, 2010 – 11:35 am
In a recent New York Times article, writer Bruce Feiler explores a supposedly emerging domestic trend – couples who live together, but sleep in separate quarters. Feiler points to a recent study which found that 1 in 4 American couples spend their nights in separates bed or bedrooms, with many separate sleeping couples citing their need for a…
It’s summer, the season of weddings. Ah, weddings, those meticulously organized displays of love and commitment with all of their conventional trappings: the white satin dress! The champagne toasts! The flowers! The cover bands belting out “We Are Family”! The buffet lines!
Many weddings today are the result of months – if not years – of stressful planning, and lots…
A news story out of Chicago tells the tale of a Laura Derbigney, a Hispanic Catholic woman who claims to have recently been ordered by a court to obey Orthodox Jewish dietary restrictions and keep the Sabbath. The reason? Laura’s husband has a son with an ex-wife – an ex-wife who follows the strict dietary and other rules…
It reads like a line from a clever whodunnit:
The aspiring actress told an operator: “I can’t breathe. I’ve been stabbed. Please help me. I’m dying. He’s stabbed me to death.”
There’s something about the murder mystery that holds a unique place in our popular lore, from Hitchcock to Agatha Christie to CSI. Such mysteries are fun and intellectually diverting…
There are plenty of ways to leave someone at the altar, but it’s hard to beat email for efficiency – or tackiness.
Basketball player Richard Jefferson of the San Antonio Spurs recently did the deed electronically with fiance Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols because, he explains:
Sometimes you might write an e-mail to get your thoughts down right.
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He had the body of a porn star. He would disappear mysteriously for days a time. Jason Brake even had the name of a porn star.
But Haylie Hocking believed him when he said he was a personal trainer. She believed him when he said that his mysterious weekend trips were just to visit gyms with his trainer clients. And…
(Retired football star, husband, and father of four Steve McNair was murdered on July 4th, 2009, by his 20-year old girlfriend who then shot herself.)
It was always easy to root for Steve McNair.
A Mississippi boy who played college ball for a historically black college many football fans had never heard of – Alcorn State. A calm-headed…
Everyone knows that cheating can have unintended consequences, but here’s another story worthy of a bad soap opera:
Mia Washington noticed that her infant twin sons had different facial features. DNA testing proved that Justin and Jordan had different fathers.
Mia admits to cheating on her partner James Harrison, who is father to one of the twins.
Sky News…
A massive new report by the Irish Commision To Inquire into Child Abuse has uncovered enough malfeasance and coverups in Catholic reform schools for a dozen Charles Dickens novels, a month of Oprah’s and a Dan Brown prequel.
Rape, humiliation, ritual abuse, it’s all there. The nine-year investigation, conducted only after a decade of lobbying by abuse survivors,
I remember getting a little plastic bracelet when my first son was born, with his name on it. My wife and he also had similar bracelets. We were told that these bracelets were supposed to eliminate any confusion as to whose baby was whose. Seemed a little silly at the time, like some bad soap opera plot device, but it…
