Maddie's Coffee Klatch

"It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up." said the late Joan Rivers.  It was one of her best jokes to take a shot at one of the truer, deeper emotional admissions that some of us women have.  We're just afraid to talk about or admit to.  However, some of us women do sometimes like to be physically controlled and spanked.  It's all about the trust we have with our partner.  In addition, the physical pain heightens the pleasure we feel while also being sexually stimulated.  Both partners just need a healthy discussion beforehand of what is, and what's not allowed and perhaps a "safe" word.  Today, these consensual behaviors have to be tempered with the backdrop of recent social movements regarding women's (and men's) rights.  There have been incidents of us women experiencing non-consensual, sexual violence and/or sexual assault.  Ladies who are interested in exploring bondage, discipline, submission, an...

"I want to be the last voice you hear at night, and the first voice you hear in the morning" is a quote that has been attributed to Cate Blanchett.  Whether she said it or not, she is not the only woman who has ever felt this way when they felt strongly for their particular man.  When we women feel deeply for our lover's attention, trust, and sexual touch - we can become highly desirous to lock in his attention and try to make ourselves the only woman that he can think about.  It's intoxicating.  Especially when he is a great lover, or he bring us to emotional or psychological highs that most other men can't.  He actually triggers something in our brain on a biochemical level. When we fall in love like this, it's like being on a drug that's more powerful than even cocaine.  Scientifically it's called endorphins.  Socially it's called "in love".  As we get older, we are supposed to grow intellectually and become more aware of our emotional...

  We women grow and bloom like everlasting flowers throughout our lives.  We should never feel that our beauty ever ends.  Our beauty evolves from our youthful mental state, through our teens, to our adult lives.  Once we're past our reproductive years, our beauty evolves in the wisdom that we should aspire to gain.  We see more.  We feel more.  We love more.  We learn to teach others to heal more, as we have learned to heal from our own missteps and mistakes.  Our wisdom gained provides more "color" to our lives and our learned lessons.  What wisdom have you learned since your teens that you can share with others?  Just name a single specific moment or interpersonal event.