by Pierre le Roux

I am now closer to my forties than what I am to my twenties. It is kind of depressing because I still don’t always feel or act like an adult or act my age for that matter. In just a few years I will be forty and be expected to have gotten my shit together. To a certain degree I am ready for it but mostly it terrifies me. Fortysomething has always seemed so old to me especially when I was in my twenties. But now that I am almost there myself it doesn’t seem that old anymore. Funny how life works, isn’t it?

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by Pierre le Roux

Pets are like family members. Or at least they are to us. We share our homes with them and our lives. Most times we also share our hearts with them. I mean how can you not? They stay with us through the good times and the bad. They see us at our best and at our worst. Through all this they stay loyal to us and never judge us (or at least not often that is).

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by Leah Waldron

Roman Catholic, pro-life activist, and Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk must have been sitting on his hands all pre-season as teammate Brendan Ayanbadejo got national props for supporting gay marriage. With Maryland gearing up to vote on gay marriage this November, the topic was probably being tossed around the Ravens locker room before the August controversy, when Maryland pastor Emmett C. Burns Jr. scolded the team’s owner, Steve Bisciotti, for permitting his linebacker to publicly support gay marriage (Burns was a Maryland delegate at the RNC at the time).

Birk may have remained quiet on the issue, but his former teammate Chris Kluwe (Birk played center for the Vikings, too) got involved, defending Ayanbadejo in a scathing letter to Burns, whom he called “mind-bogglingly stupid” for stepping on Ayanbadejo’s freedom of speech. Even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell weighed in on the controversy, stating that Ayanbadejo, like any NFL player, had a right to express his opinion. That seemed to make everyone—even those on the fence about NFL players supporting gay marriage—happy and ready for some football.

Except, of course, Matt Birk.

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by Pierre Le Roux

The Internet has become such an integral part of all our lives that very few of us can do without it. It has made our daily lives easier and the world accessible to all. Social Networking Sites has also become a tool used by many to stay in touch with friends and family, meet new people and maybe even find that all elusive soul mate. However, with the good also comes the bad: Some people use the Internet with malicious intent, some are predators feeding off the gullible and others want to satisfy their own demented fantasies leaving a trail of virtual victims in their data tracks. This led me to ask: Do we really know who we are chatting to on the other side of our Internet cable?

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by Pierre Le Roux

It may come as a surprise to some people but I actually have a real job. You know the kind that pays the bills. Seeing as I have never made any money from blogging and probably never will, I do need something that can sustain my and hubby’s “lavish” lifestyle. But in the real world all is not always sunshine and roses and of late things have been rather (how should I put it) stressful in my work environment. The fact that I also had to visit the dentist once a week for the last three weeks and having had to get two filling and a root canal also did not contribute to alleviate my stress levels. All of this then also contributed to me having my first serious panic attack on Monday and it was not pretty. It was not pretty at all!

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