What Does a Woman Want? That supposed smart guy Sigmund Freud may not have been as smart as we thought. His friend Marie Bonaparte , the great-grandniece of Emperor Napoleon, a French author and analyst herself, once sought treatment from the renown psychoanalyst for her own sexual problems. Famously Freud asked her, “The great…
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Suprise Me
What Does a Woman Want?
Prompted By Intelligence
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What Does a Woman Want? That supposed smart guy Sigmund Freud may not have been as smart as we thought. His friend Marie Bonaparte , the great-grandniece of Emperor Napoleon, a French author and analyst herself, once sought treatment from the renown psychoanalyst for her own sexual problems. Famously Freud asked her, “The great…
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Is that a mini skirt?
Prompted By What We Wore
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Launching my firstborn
Prompted By First Day of School
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Instead of a heart-to-heart talk, we sang along with a "classic rock" station at the top of our lungs.
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Hitchin’ a Ride
Prompted By Hitchhiking
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I established two rules for myself. First, never take a part-way ride that dropped me off at a low traffic turnpike exit and second, never accept the ride if there was a bloody hatchet on the front seat. Otherwise, I was in. After all, I was young and invincible.
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A Dream Within A Dream
Prompted By Daydreaming
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Dreams are ephemeral tapestries woven in the deepest recesses of our minds, where reality bends and dissolves, logic surrenders to the fantastical, and the impossible becomes commonplace. Before the first fluttering of consciousness at dawn from the final descent into slumber, we traverse this enigmatic realm nightly, embarking on journeys that defy definition and leave…
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A friendly feud
Prompted By Family Feud
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Nearly every winter, it seems, my wife and I engage in a friendly feud about how many pets are enough.
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No Way To Say Goodbye
Prompted By The Great Beyond
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My first experience with death was my grandfather’s, when I was eleven years old. Both of my maternal grandparents (Nana and Papa) lived with us in our big brick house in New Jersey, and had for as long as I can remember — possibly since before I was born. My grandmother had one of the…
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The Identity Roundabout: The Long Way Home
Prompted By Art’s Impact
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With the discovery of Jewish art and culture my heritage became more significant.
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A different form of binge-watching
Prompted By What Are You Bingeing?
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The equipment I am using...is not a traditional stationary bike: not even one of those souped-up Peloton bikes that are so highly promoted. it is one of my own road bikes, minus its rear wheel.
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Lessons from Kindergarten
Prompted By Sleep
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There were milk and cookies afterwards.
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