When I started out my journalism career, I certainly never thought I'd be writing a story about Kirk Cameron, Charles Darwin, divorce, bananas, and internet pornography. Good holy God, I love my job.

The story so far: Our boy Kirk made a movie called "Fireproof" about a Christian family on the brink of divorce. Kirk plays the cyber-porn-addicted fireman who has fallen out of love with his wife, a hospital public relations representative who's getting jiggy with a coworker. Kirk's dad, knowing that there's trouble at the mill, gives his son a book of — wait for it! — "love dares" and challenges him to make his marriage work in 40 days.

Oh, yes. I did say "love dares".

The movie had a production budget of only $500,000 and features a very sexy silhouette of a firefighter on the promo poster, a firefighter who I very much doubt is Kirk Cameron. Kirk was last seen weighing about 125 pounds on YouTube, advising that Darwinism is disproven because God invented the banana.

In recent interviews, Kirk has said that divorce is the big white elephant in the room, the thing that nobody wants to talk about. Kirk, I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

This website wouldn't exist if people didn't want to talk about divorce. Its success proves that people going through the divorce process need an outlet, a community, and a place to reach out. As a culture, we've spent far too long not talking about divorce, and where has it really got us?

While every cell in my body wants to tear this movie to shreds, I can't. As a cynical, non-churchgoing urbanite, it's easy to brush this kind of movie off, but I think that's a big mistake. There's a tremendous need that it's filling.

It seems like every time I turn around, I’m writing about rising divorce rates in the UK. More people got divorced leading up to the holidays. Then more people got divorced on the first Monday back to work after the New Year. Valentine’s Day was a tragedy for marriage. And now summer holidays are taking their toll on the institution of marriage in merry old England.

After divorce experts warned us that the divorce rate would be at its highest in January, July divorce petitions slashed expectations at 150% of last year’s numbers. Why the spike? Apparently vacations are stressful. Really, really stressful.

The spokesman for one London lawyers office says couples are “thrown together for two weeks solid with a spouse they wouldn’t normally see for more than a few hours a day. Throw in alcohol, travel delays, bickering kids and a hotel or apartment that’s tiny or not up to scratch, and it all becomes a pressure cooker just waiting to blow.”

Maybe if they’d known they’d be getting divorced afterwards, they wouldn’t have splurged for the couples massage. One commentator on the website for The Sun, known as Lolly1010, summed it up nicely, I think. “If a marriage can't survive a 2 week holiday, it's not very strong in the first place.”

Experts predict August or September are only going to get worse, so watch this space. If the divorce rate keeps skyrocketing we’ll start seeing divorces between people who weren’t married in the first place.

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I've read about the spiritual divorce. I've read about divorce-as-catalyst-for-change. Now I'm about to read something a little more pragmatic.

There's a new book out called You Can Keep The Damn China: And 824 Other Great Tips On Dealing With Divorce that's looking pretty good. It's from a series called Hundreds Of Heads, which takes the "two heads are better than one" theory and multiplies it by, well, hundreds. The article I read about the book highlighted some of the tips and anecdotes offered, but I checked out the Amazon listing as well. My favorite so far? "One day, you just wake up and say, ‘I made a big mistake. I'm out of here.' My advice? Do it. Don't overthink it."

The book outlines various stages in the divorce process and offers support for what seems to be every possible obstacle. From deciding to divorce to figuring out how to tell friends and family to making the decision to remain friends with your ex, it's all covered.

Personally, if people got one piece of good advice from the over 800 tips on offer, I think that would be a good deal. Although the title piece, "You Can Keep The Damn China" is probably some great advice in itself. Don't fight over junk. Leave, start a new life and buy your own damn china.

I don't understand all the controversy about divorce parties. They've been popular here in the U.S. for quite some time now and their popularity appears to be making its way across the Atlantic to our friends in Britain. Some love them, some hate them, but nobody can avoid them.

I just don't get what the big deal is. You were involved in a situation and it sucked. You leave the situation and it doesn't suck anymore. Of course you're going to have a party! I don't know if I go in for the whole ritualistic female empowerment thing, but whatever. It's not my party.

The Web site I was reading seemed to have a pretty neutral stance on the whole divorce party thing, but what really interested me was their request for reader feedback — they asked "Is it really a good idea to celebrate the end of your marriage drinking champagne and going out on the pull with the girls, or is it one cynical step too far?"

Cynical? I don't think I'd call it cynical. Saying "All men are incapable of monogamy" is cynical. Realizing your marriage is over and you may as well have a party is just reasonable in my book. It seemed the dissenters' biggest issue was with emotion — one advised, "Don't deny you're hurting."

I really don't think that having a party denies anything. People have parties when they're hurting all the time. Have you ever been to an Irish wake? The bottom line is, if you want to have a party, have a party. And if you're hurting, you can cry if you want to.