Candy’s Celebrity Crushes: Through the Years

I can’t lie . . . I was always boy crazy, even back as young as about 3. I remember having a crush on one of my parents’ friends, when I was around that age. My friend Bethany, in junior high, even wrote in my yearbook about the fact that I always had a crush on someone. How embarrassing to look back on, but it’s true. I was always a day late and a dollar short with the boys, though – I liked the outgoing guys when the nerds all liked me. I liked the nerds when they had already given up and moved onto someone else. I was once told by a guy in school that I’d had a crush on for about 4 years that he always thought I was a snob, and that he wished we’d begun to hang out sooner. I had no idea – I was just a shy girl who assumed that she was invisible to the opposite sex, for the most part.

Red-Headed Child Star Diva Smackdown: Half Pint vs. Samantha Baker Davis, Jr.

Half Pint

I recently finished reading a gargantuan novel that, though it was good in parts, really made me yearn for some lightweight, fun reading. I had been meaning to read Melissa Gilbert’s memoir, Prairie Tale, for some time, but I never got around to ordering a copy. Luckily, my wonderful husband gave me a copy for my birthday, and I read through it in no time, gobbling up all of the insider TV stories and the juicy tidbits about her social life. This got me into both the memoir mood, and the 80s mood, so I ordered Molly Ringwald’s recent book, Getting the Pretty Back, before I had even finished Prairie Tale. I’m almost through with Molly’s book, and though I’m getting through it pretty quickly, I have to go ahead and call the winner of this smackdown: It’s Half-Pint, with a very solid lead.

Who Would Jesus Marry?

Monogamy is not just a heterosexual concept

I read a fascinating article from Newsweek.com today, after a friend posted the link on Facebook. As a liberal, it was amazing to me to see some of the very same arguments I have for why same-sex marriage  should be made legal (& why I do not understand the rampant intolerance of same-sex couples) coming from the Conservative side of the aisle. The article is very thought-provoking, and I would encourage you to read it, no matter what your thoughts on the subject. I’m all for looking at any issue from all angles – and yes, I do mean any issue.

Here’s a link to the article:     http://www.newsweek.com/id/229957/page/1