This is the ninth year I’ve produced this list, which began in 2016, and it’s bigger, badder and better than ever. Actually, it isn’t bigger. I’ve always included 12 items. However, my forthcoming book, The Cheating Ex Files: 101 Gifts for Your Unfaithful Ex-Partner, is bigger, by a staggering 89 items. It’s a carefully curated collection, scoured from all over the globe. Continue reading 12 Christmas Gifts for a Cheating Ex 2025
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Uncomfortable Conversations over the Holidays
I’ve been a host on the Thriving Women Network live TV show, Uncomfortable Conversations since 2022. It’s taught me the importance of good listening skills to be able to engage in productive conversation with people who may not share the same perspectives. We have covered all kinds of social issues on the show and a variety of views about them.
Uncomfortable Conversations presents this challenge: Instead of listening to agree, why not listen to build a stronger relationship with the person you’re talking to? Continue reading Uncomfortable Conversations over the Holidays
Not the BBC I Used to Work for
The BBC created the Trusted News Initiative, but can you trust the BBC? A leaked internal memo published in The Telegraph on November 6, 2025, details serious breaches of impartiality in the BBC coverage of current affairs. Sadly, it wasn’t news to me. As an old-school journalist employed by the BBC four decades ago, the drop in editorial standards from that time to the present was glaringly obvious. Continue reading Not the BBC I Used to Work for
Am I Redundant? Old-School Journalist Looks at AI
Read on to find out how artificial intelligence can mimic Shakespeare and Monty Python to justify its existence. AI can certainly save copywriters enormous amounts of time. However, will it lead to copyright law becoming obsolete and human wordsmiths like me being consigned to the scrap heap? Continue reading Am I Redundant? Old-School Journalist Looks at AI
Saggy Boobs Story: Do Bras Make Breasts More or Less Droopy?
There are shaggy dog stories, but what follows is a saggy boob story…
The French pride themselves on their admiration of the female form and their love of perky breasts. Thus, it is no surprise that the first ever study on whether bras helped or hindered a woman’s muscle tone and posture was carried out in France. Continue reading Saggy Boobs Story: Do Bras Make Breasts More or Less Droopy?
What Is the Perfect Man?
Inspired by this Valentine’s Day Perfect Man immortalized in premium milk chocolate, I decided to search for an answer to the complex question that it brought to mind. Is the ideal man sweet and decadently rich with a muscular chest and big biceps?
Yes and no, according to the results of the 2019 Ideal Partner Global Survey, Continue reading What Is the Perfect Man?
Are Gender Affirming Practices Carcinogenic?
As a two-time breast cancer survivor and BBC-trained journalist, I have done a significant amount of research into the causes of cancer. My self-help memoir, My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity, not only includes cartoons and humor, but also a bibliography referencing nearly 70 books and more than 100 articles and studies. Continue reading Are Gender Affirming Practices Carcinogenic?
Farting During Sex: An International Study
An unusual study has recently been published by a prestigious Japanese institution that provides a league table of countries whose inhabitants break wind the most during sexual activity. Continue reading Farting During Sex: An International Study
Is God Racist and Anti-Semitic? If So, Can We Fight Back by Ditching Our Bras?
I consider myself quite a spiritual person, so why am I saying something that folks might find spiritually outrageous? Most of us are aware of the history of black slavery in America and the Holocaust in Europe but something else is happening right now. Did you know that young black women have about double the death rate from breast cancer as white women? Continue reading Is God Racist and Anti-Semitic? If So, Can We Fight Back by Ditching Our Bras?
October 13 is No Bra Day
Did you know that on October 13 every year women worldwide are encouraged to go braless to promote breast cancer awareness? Continue reading October 13 is No Bra Day
Sparring with ChatGPT on Bras and Cancer
Bare Facts or a Bare-Faced Lie?
Numerous studies support a strong link between bras and breast cancer. Yet mainstream search engines focus on a flawed 2014 study that did not show a connection and insist that no credible evidence exists showing otherwise. What about the much-vaunted new AI tool, available in free and paid versions, ChatGPT, that everyone is raving about to solve their research and copy writing needs? Continue reading Sparring with ChatGPT on Bras and Cancer
If Breaking Up with Your Bra Is Hard to Do…
In many indigenous cultures in Africa and South America, it is generally acceptable for both men and women to go without clothing that covers the torso. Yet in the West, women going topless in public might face prosecution for indecent exposure. William J. Mayo MD, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, wrote in the article “Susceptibility to Cancer,” published in the 1931 Annals of Surgery, that “Cancer of the breast occurs largely among civilized women. In those countries where breasts are allowed to be exposed, that is, are not compressed or irritated by clothing, it is rare.” Continue reading If Breaking Up with Your Bra Is Hard to Do…
Chocolate Cures Everything?
As a lifelong chocoholic, I’m always heartened by tales of the healing power of chocolate. Continue reading Chocolate Cures Everything?
Are Infidelity Surveys Worthless?
So say you’re having a secret affair, squeezed into your busy schedule as you juggle your family life with illicit interludes. What would you rather be doing—having torrid sex with your lover or filling out a survey about it? You could always do the survey during family time—just make sure that your spouse isn’t looking over your shoulder. Continue reading Are Infidelity Surveys Worthless?
Glenda Green Didn’t Want to Read My Book yet Liked It!
The comedy self-help memoir I’ve just had published, “My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity,” references almost 70 books, including one of the most quoted books in modern spiritual literature, the bestseller “Love without End” by Glenda Green. Continue reading Glenda Green Didn’t Want to Read My Book yet Liked It!
How a Farting Goat Got Me on Live TV
Gomer the Gassy Goat got me an invite to be a host on a live TV network. How did that happen? Well, it’s a bit of a shaggy dog, or maybe I should say shaggy goat, story. Continue reading How a Farting Goat Got Me on Live TV
Success versus Purpose
A recent LinkedIn post by Dr. Manoj Krishna, founder of the Human Wisdom Project, asking the question, “What does success mean to you—is it wealth, fame or something else?” got me thinking. Continue reading Success versus Purpose
Breast Cancer: Humor as Healing
I had a motto while dealing with both breast cancer and an unfaithful husband: “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.” I tried to find absurd humor in every situation I was faced with and wanted to avoid the cancer victim mentality. I’m a two-time breast cancer survivor with a mutated BRCA gene that makes me more susceptible to cancer. Continue reading Breast Cancer: Humor as Healing
Breast Implant Illness? It’s All in Your Head, You Neurotic Woman!
Sometimes industry-funded medical studies are so biased and their outrageous conclusions are so bad that they’re good, at least in a Monty Python kind of way. Continue reading Breast Implant Illness? It’s All in Your Head, You Neurotic Woman!
If You Don’t Laugh, You’re Gonna Cry
Here I am chemo-bald. I cannot compete with that famous photograph of Joan Lunden battling breast cancer on the cover of the October 2014 edition People magazine. The TV host looks stunning with or without hair. I do not, so this hairless cartoon of me will have to suffice. Continue reading If You Don’t Laugh, You’re Gonna Cry