Sex Talks

( The above is a photo of my ridiculously happy face while holding Zadie  who will not be fully featured on the blog because she is not old enough for Internet fame .) I spent all day yesterday with Baby Zadie and her mom, Carly. As you may recall , Baby Zadie is the most perfect baby that there ever has been, a fact I can now confirm because she let me hold her lots without crying, laughed at two of my overly rehearsed funny faces, and was obsessed with my sweater (no, seriously. Carly said she'd never been more focused on a single item in her life, albeit brief). Together we played, laughed, napped, peed in our pants (mostly her), watched Ellen (all three of us), and did Tummy Time on the "so-soft mat" with the "woodland creatures" (predominantly me).  Following my lengthy session with this brand new human, I can confidently say that I am both totally capable of and in no way ready to handle raising a child. Here is a list of things that are required to manag...

Aside from world peace, a healthy 2013, and a puppy for R (that I magically don't have to walk!), here is what I would like to receive in commemoration for a day that is in no way my birthday. ( Apologies in advance to the people who have already purchased my 2012 Christmas gifts. I forgot this blog post was a "tradition" until I couldn't think of anything to write today and looked back into the archives.)   Phillip Phillip's CD - I don't want to buy the good singles on iTunes. I want the physical CD so I can stare at the cover featuring that scruffy, baby-faced, tragically-named Idol winner. For the leaders of our nation to do the right thing regarding this whole fiscal cliff situation - I don't personally think "the right thing" is open to interpretation, so I'm leaving it at that.  See above. Replace "leaders of this nation" with "Supreme Court Justices" and "fiscal cliff" with "DOMA/Prop 8." Sam...

I'm going to keep this one brief because I really do believe anything published on Gawker.com and anything published by Lena Dunham should be left up to the reader's own interpretation. That said, this story surfaced recently, and it contains some interesting details. The basic overview is this: Lena Dunham sold a book proposal to Random House for 3.7 million dollars (that's a lot in so far as book proposals go). That book is called Not That Kind of Girl , and it is being touted as,"frank and funny advice on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work." Gawker.com got a hold of the 66-page proposal and leaked it on their site with extensive commentary (in typical Gawker.com style). Lena Dunham's attorney (whose name is Charles Harder, if you happen to be looking for a good attorney) demanded that Gawker.com take down the proposal. Gawker.com took down the proposal but left up 12 sentences from the proposal with commentary on those sentence. You can read...

On Tuesday I sat on the couch and watched TV from 4:30pm until 8:30pm. It was mostly episodes of House Hunters and Property Virgins because I decided that counts as research for if/when I can ever afford to buy a house, but at the end I got sucked into a Vh1 re-run of Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT, and that's not technically applicable to my current career trajectory (though "become Kenny Ortega" should really be on any smart person's vision board). I am proud to say that this marks the first time since I left my job that I've gave in to the desire to close my laptop and veg out for an entire afternoon. I am not proud to say that this marks the bagillionth time I've considered it, only to be stopped by some combination of intense guilt or a well-timed moment of inspiration. I've been writing for enough years to know that every day wasn't going to be filled with nine hours of blissful, uninterrupted creation just because, hey brain! I sacrificed i...

My friend Rachel Hollis wrote a very brave piece for HuffPost Women yesterday about her experience with sex in her 20s. It's called, I Only Had One Kind Of Sex In My 20s, And It Was Amazing.  Rachel wrote this very brave piece in response to another HuffPost Women piece called 15 Types Of Sex You Have In Your 20s. Here is an excerpt from that piece to give you a sense of the subject matter: "Between the ages of 20 and 30, your life is probably going to involve a decent amount of sex. And since this is the decade of exploring your options, that sex tends to be anything but uniform. Here are 15 types of sex that you probably have had (or will have) during your 20-something years" And another: "You're Convenient" Sex: Location, location, location. Maybe it's the person who you've run into in your apartment building on occasion and shot a (you hope) seductive glance, or that friend of a friend who lives three blocks away and made out with you at tha...