A happily married man is writing a book about cougars (I hate that word) and called last week to talk to me. Stop it — he did not get my number from the men's bathroom. I haven't even hit the West Coast yet. My job? To help him separate the media hype from the reality of cougars.
Charles Orlando from San Francisco, who is hopelessly in love with his wife and kids, is writing, The Problem with Women... is Men: The Evolution of a Man's Man to a Man of Higher Consciousness. It's an in-depth look into stereotypic men today and the challenges women have surviving with them and/or finding one that's good enough to keep.
We're launching a contest called "Redefining Divorce," but I can't enter because I'm an employee — DARN!
I had visions of winning that $1,000 Spa Finder gift certificate and having 10 guys massage me at once. Oh well, good luck to the rest of you guys. In keeping with the theme though, I created the following:
"Five Phrases That Redefine Divorce" — To Use & Amuse When Introducing Yourself.
Here's how it works.
Imagine you are introducing yourself with an outstretched hand ready for a handshake.
Now pretend you're saying, "Hi, I'm so and so, and I'm divorced."
Now I want you to try the same thing again, but this time, choose any one of the phrases below and substitute it in place of the word "divorced."
Go ahead — try 'em all out and see which ones work best for you.
"Five Phrases That Redefine Divorce" — To Use & Amuse When Introducing Yourself:
Debra Messing and Debra Nigro. Isn't it fun when someone has your same name and spells it the same way, too?
Debra Messing will be 'posing' as a divorced wife in the new weekly TV series The Starter Wife. I, on the other hand, will continue posing as myself — the real life divorcee.
If Messing were a real divorcee, she'd have known better than to put her show on Friday nights. Divorcees want to go out on Friday nights and mess around, or something like that.
Friday nights pose a dilemma for divorced women everywhere. Somehow you just feel you are "supposed" to go out.
Friday nights have always seemed like the night all the other singles are out — somewhere. Saturday is still "hypothetically" date night. So given a choice, divorced women will pick Friday as their night out on the town.
Therefore, I assume, in doing their research about when to air The Starter Wife, they must not have had a lot of divorcees in on the decision.
I said yes to doing stand-up comedy in NYC Sunday night.
Here I go again terrorizing myself. Why?Why?Why? I won't sleep till it's over. I know my friends think I'm funny, but a packed room of strangers? Once again, I obviously need to prove it's never too late to risk anything — even my reputation.
My producer Mark Goldman made me do this 3 years ago when I was a stand-up virgin. I was freaking out until I got up to the mike and heard the first laugh from the crowd. Then they couldn't get me off the stage.
Some say if I hadn't gone on for 3 weeks I might have won the darn thing. I was disqualified for going past the five-minute window, They flash a red light to get off. I never saw it, just heard the laughs from the crowd and kept rolling.
“Friendhsip First” was how Paul McCartney billed his recent concert in Tel Aviv. It’s obvious he took the same approach with his new gal Nancy Shevell.
It took Paul 43 years to perform in Israel and just about as long to perform with Nancy.
Like many divorced people, Paul and Nancy are what I call comfort daters...those that head back in time and re-date old boyfriends or girlfriends who are now also single. Often you track them down. They knew you when you were young and really cute and still see you that way and you them. The delusion is intoxicating, and at least you know where the heck they came from.
In this instance Nancy was an old friend of Paul’s and his first wife Linda who died of cancer in 1998. You can imagine the connection.
Isn’t it great to be attracted to someone who you have some history with. Saves a load of conversation.
Well, you know how I feel about the word Cougar — don’t like it. Wrote about it many times on FWW.
But the word and the lifestage it defines are so pervasive now that Saturday Night Live is doing ongoing Cougar skits. They did one again this past Saturday with Cameron Diaz.
We cannot deny that older women are now back on the market in large numbers as a direct result of divorce, and that younger men are a viable romantic option like never before.
I think it’s a good thing that women are busting up the old double standard — and yes, I admit it provides lots of comedy — BUT, Saturday Night Live inspired me to address the stereotype directly to the show. So here goes.
My Dear SNL writers,
The Cougar Den & Cameron Diaz are hysterical.
You have inspired me to do kegels as I write this.
So I went to a local bistro-like joint on Thursday night, to have a small birthday dinner for a girlfriend with a couple gals and and it turns into a Jerry Springer episode.
Like chromosomes I will change the all the girls names to Xs and all the boys names to Ys to protect the innocent, the guilty, and the confused.
We're sitting and I am tired from the day but happy to be with the girls.
I look over and there's a table full of men from an annual golf outing — 15 maybe and I think I see a face from grammar school.
Imagine? It's him. Same face at 51 as at 5. Imagine?
We get up, have huge hugs and laughs and go back to our tables.
After dinner we move to the bar area.
It's crowded. A gal pal from the past walks up to give me a hug. We'll call her X.
X and her hubby use to socialize with my ex and I when we were married.
She is still married, but out with X1, another gal who is at the table and I go over and sit to say hi.
X1 was married to my ex hubby's best friend who was also my great friend and they are now divorced.
