A hot topic right now is MacKenzie Phillip’s memoir, High On Arrival. It’s so hot, that even Oprah wants in on the action, having the actress on her show to help her promote her story. In the book, Phillips details her life as the daughter of musician John Phillips.
Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father’s friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas …read more

I knew when I heard the phone ring that my mother was dead. No one calls at 4:30 a.m. I was sleeping in my parents’ house because, though the doctors had thought she had months longer to live, my sister just had a feeling. And so the phone rang and I let it ring and ring until I heard my father’s voice answer from the other room and then I picked up. The woman on the other end said, “Dr. Walker. This is the hospital. I’m am sorry to inform you, but your wife, Mary Walker, has passed away.” …read more

Maybe you too saw the Oprah’s on Hormones?
It occurs to me, watching all those angry, frustrated, fed-up women. . .
Perhaps it is only hormones that makes women put up with so much of everyone’s shit.
Maybe, when we’re in our mid-to-late late 30s, 40s, and 50s – we’ve had enough already.
Perhaps it’s the lack of estrogen that makes women finally stop. Putting up with the world’s shit, I mean.

I’ve been reading Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now.

He introduces the idea of a Pain Body. The Pain Body is also discussed in great detail in his other book A New Earth.

Basically, he says that one part of the human condition is a pain body. We have personal pain bodies that result from things that happen specifically to us. But, we also have collective pain bodies that come from being members of a group – women, for instance.

Tolle says that because of several thousand years of oppression, repression, violence, rape, battery, harassment, slavery and sexism baby girls are born …read more

Susie Homemaker (My Mom) is Coming To-Do-List:

* Steam clean the couches

* Mop floors

* Dust and lemon oil shelves and furniture

* Rake leaves

* Vacuum

* Make a Birthday gift

* Laundry

* Caulk shower

* Clean bathrooms

* OxyClean Zack’s floors

* Kid’s rooms

* Magic Erasure door jams and walls

* 5 Blog Posts (so I can spend time with my parents).

Is anyone going to do the 6 month Oprah and Peter Walsh Clutter-free Challenge?

I’ve been conciencious about working on the clutter. After the show I put 3 pair of shoes in a donation bag I keep perpetually going.
I’ve gone from this:

To This:

I was going to post a bunch of really fun and hilarious photos of my book club meeting in which we said, Book? What Book? Show us your vibrating penises and tell us what those arousal creams feel like and how do we find our G Spots?
But, we have jobs. Some of us have jobs with in education and some of us are hoping to get future jobs.
So, that just won’t do.
We also have kids.
Kids with Internet access or who will have future Internet access soon. And their children will have future Internet access.
So, that just …read more

Did anyone else notice the anti-feminist remarks on Oprah?

Stop telling your man what to do or you won’t be able to enjoy sex. It infantilizes him – which turns you off.

Busy women want to be dominated in bed.

Women want to be told what to do and submit in bed.

Most women only have clitoral orgasms.

As opposed to the other kinds – vaginal orgasms and combination orgasms.

Yes, the G-spot is real.

if you’re looking for it – I disagree slightly with Dr. Laura Berman – I don’t think it feels like “the tip of your nose,” I would describe it as rough and …read more

In the battle over our children – parents versus child rapists and child pornograhers – who would you place your bet on?

It seemed child pornographers and clubs like NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association, whose declared “hobby” is to rape children were winning. With 300,000 known predators the FBI was monitoring, but not arresting or prosecuting it seemed the only rational response was to run and hide.

But, hide where? They wear “good guy” camouflage and mingle among us, volunteering to coach soccer teams, lead the youth Sunday School, and play the part of the perfect step-parent or boyfriend …read more

Time is running out fast for the PROTECT Our Children Act!
Since PROTECT’s campaign was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, nearly half a million Americans have flooded the Senate with phone calls and emails, demanding that Washington take action. Thanks to this tidal wave, we now have 52 Senate sponsors. So, the good news is that, in a 100-member Senate, we have all the votes we need to pass this bill and protect thousands of children!
The bad news is that we might never get a vote… unless you act now.
Believe it or not, there are just two men in …read more

Hey Ya’ll – Don’t miss Suze Orman, author of Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny on Oprah today.
The way people have been handling their money has been a hot topic around Blog Fabulous since I got here.
The reason is because my family got in some hot water about 4-5 years ago now and it took a long time for us to dig ourselves out of the hole and learn about money and develop a healthy relationship with it.

Women MUST learn about money. Must. Must. Must.
Else you shall have no power in your …read more