Are You Kidding Me?

Maine is giving it's MIDDLE SCHOOL girls The Pill.

No joke. Apparently there's been a "rash of pregnancies" and so they're offering Birth Control instead of ABSTINENCE!

Middle School!

HELLO PARENTS, how about stepping up as such and taking your role as their PARENT. Quit trying to relate to them, quit trying to be their friend, quit avoiding the discipline.

You have got to be kidding me.

"We are dealing with children," said Diane Miller, a former school nurse said. "I am just horrified at the suggestion." You and me both, sister.

"I know I've done my job as a parent," Thompson said. "(But there) may be a time when she doesn't feel comfortable coming to me ... (and) not all these kids have a strong parental advocate at home." She might not feel comfortable coming to you? Right, and you think you've done your job? You would count yourself as one who is a strong parental advocate?

My frustration level just soared out the roof! Tell your boys to keep their pants zipped and your girls to keep their legs crossed. Open up those avenues of uncomfortable conversation and you will open up the avenues of vulnerability, they will come to you with the sensitive topics if you start talking about the sensitive topics- WHICH SHOULDN'T BE SENSITIVE TOPICS!

This is ridiculous! Middle school? Middle school?!!!!

"This isn't encouraging kids to have sex. This is about the kids who are engaging in sexually activity," Richard Veilleux said. Yuh, okay! Safe sex. That's what you're promoting. At that age when hormones are just starting to rage, you want to offer safe sex. Who doesn't want safe sex? What part about safe sex doesn't encourage sex? Sexually active people will continue to have sex because you're promising (or give the illusion of promising) that they can do it safely. Tell me I can continue to eat chocolate all the chocolate I want without gaining weight and I'm in! Tell my friend they can eat all the chocolate they want without gaining weight and even if I've never tasted that delectable treat before, oh, I'm definitely jumping on that train. (Sarah hits her "I'm-so-hungry-and-it's-after-noon/can't-take-anymore-of-this-agonizingly-moronic- hypocrisy/so-angry-I'm-seeing-stars" shock and keels over..... the smell of coffee awakens her)
CAN WE SAY "STDs"? Birth Control won't stop those! No babies does not mean, "Safe Sex." It just means a lack of pregnancy. And that's can't be guaranteed with birth control! The only 100% guaranteed means of safe sex (no pregnancy, no STD, no emotional bond) is NO SEX!

Oooo, what I would give to have those parents in a room together. Give them a good shaking, a real good dose of backbone, and a whole lotta chastity belts.

I need a diet coke right now.... and some chocolate, fat and all.

Adieu, bella donna.

One of Britain's most fair of ladies has bid farewell. Deborah Kerr, classiest of classy leading ladies of a bye-gone era has passed away.

I remember watching her in "The King and I," every fiber of my being longing to dance as she did in the post-banquet ballroom scene. Many times as a young girl (and once, partnerless, as a young lady on a moonlight and foggy beach) I would gallivant around the living room, stopping only when my lungs and legs were screaming for mercy. I had the honor of dancing in that manner, quite unexpectedly, with a friend during an "Aloha" party, barefoot and carefree, complete with the pang that it wasn't as perfect as it should have been. The friend would never be my knight, as the King of Siam would never fully be hers. It is still a treasure I shall never ever forget, although I do long for the opportunity to dance as she did, complete with her beautiful ballgown. There is nothing like dancing resplendent as a princess, the feel of luxurious fabric twisting and swishing and splaying out at each turn. Ah heaven, the hope you instill in all our hearts.

I remember catching glimpses of "An Affair to Remember" in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle." Finally, years after that first viewing, I rented "An Affair" and bawled my eyes out at the very end. The tragedy, the heartbreak, the hope and despair, all leading up to the most wonderful of endings.

"The Prisoner of Zenda." Oh what a glorious sword fighting, dueling, steal-the-heart-of-the-damsel movie! One of my guilty pleasure movies in which Kerr plays the most enviable role of a honorable, noble, and dutiful princess. (and the dresses!)

Thank you Deborah Kerr, for the heartbreaking roles you played, the dreams you set in the soul of this girl, and for always being a lady.



Movie I need to see: The End of the Affair.

Day in Scotland, compliments of Teitur.

While listening to"One and Only," a song about best friends and lovers, I found myself on a train in the late afternoon, coming home from a visit and journey. Rain beating on the windows, the cloud cover darkening the outdoors, the cold just outside; my head tilted back on the seat, my body facing towards damp and dark, a perfect cove created.

O what a beautiful ache.