Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
MISSY ASKS YOU ! WILL YOU SPEND THE HOLIDAYS ALONE ? LOVE YOUR OWN COMPANY!
If you haven't yet, it's time to make some plans so that you are not alone for the holidays, that is, if you don't want to be. (Many very busy people long to have some peace and quiet in solitude.) If you haven't, learning to love your own company is the key to solitude rather than loneliness.
The holidays offer many opportunities to keep in touch with local and long distance friends, even if it's just attending to your holiday card list and adding a personal note.
I'M A BELIEVER IN THE GOOD OLD FASHIONED, STAMPED, ENVELOPED, GREETING CARD, one with at least a short personal note. E-mail or e-cards will never replace the well designed papery card! Not among people with taste!
Are there any movies you've been wanting to see AT THE THEATRE?
Home DVD nights be banned! Time to take yourself out to the movies, the biggest screen, but don't indulge in the extra large popcorn which will put fat on your tummy that only Santa Claus would envy!
Is there something special you've been hoping someone else would gift you? Maybe it's time to indulge yourself a little. Buying something special for yourself, when you can afford to, is a wonderful way to stimulate our poor economy. Maybe you are or used to be a retail sales clerk on commission yourself?
If you are going to spend the days between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve alone and are thinking you might get depressed, think vacation. If you can't leave town, make this a time to become a tourist of your own town Now is the time to go to art galleries, museums, and concerts.
Don't forget to invite your friends.
It's not too late to create a wonderful holiday season for yourself!
Missy
The holidays offer many opportunities to keep in touch with local and long distance friends, even if it's just attending to your holiday card list and adding a personal note.
I'M A BELIEVER IN THE GOOD OLD FASHIONED, STAMPED, ENVELOPED, GREETING CARD, one with at least a short personal note. E-mail or e-cards will never replace the well designed papery card! Not among people with taste!
Are there any movies you've been wanting to see AT THE THEATRE?
Home DVD nights be banned! Time to take yourself out to the movies, the biggest screen, but don't indulge in the extra large popcorn which will put fat on your tummy that only Santa Claus would envy!
Is there something special you've been hoping someone else would gift you? Maybe it's time to indulge yourself a little. Buying something special for yourself, when you can afford to, is a wonderful way to stimulate our poor economy. Maybe you are or used to be a retail sales clerk on commission yourself?
If you are going to spend the days between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve alone and are thinking you might get depressed, think vacation. If you can't leave town, make this a time to become a tourist of your own town Now is the time to go to art galleries, museums, and concerts.
Don't forget to invite your friends.
It's not too late to create a wonderful holiday season for yourself!
Missy
Monday, December 17, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF : MY SHORT LIST OF MISTRESSES EXPANDING ALL THE TIME!
When I started this blog I had a short list of mistresses and most of them were in the Historical Mistress category but as time goes by more and more mistresses emerge in the news, often because they out themselves by writing books or are written about. After all, most mistresses are in secret relationships, as secret as those who keep the secret. After all, we aren't ready for polygamy to be legal. We're still struggling with gays being allowed to marry legally.
One of the discussion issues about Mistresses is defining who is or is not a Mistress. MOST OF THE WOMEN WHO ARE CALLED MISTRESSES IN THE PRESS are NOT! Of all of the modern women who have suffered due to this label is Monica Lewinsky, who was simply in an affair with President William Jefferson Clinton when he was in office, though she may have felt love for him that he didn't have for her. Strangely, it is his denial of her that has set her apart, and possibly made her unmarriagable. Every adulterer is not a mistress or mister, and not every mistress is an adulterer!
In History many mistresses of Kings and other Aristocrats were married (some would say Married OFF) or acknowledged financially. It was considered good for the family. (An example or two is Mary and Ann Bolyn.) Some men, including husbands (think Camilla Parker Bowles' husband Charlie) were tolerant or delighted that their women were of interest to men with power and those men with power sometimes sent the husband away on some official duty but often rewarded them.
These days many mistresses are self supporting.
These days some women are keeping men.
These days some women mistress for a time because it suits their time of life, and move on into marriage or singlehood on purpose.
These days when women have more power over their own lives than ever (though not as much as the feminists would idealize) some are choosing to be with men who cannot or will not marry them.
WHY?
I think it comes down to LOVE.
There isn't the benefits of marriage to a mistress that wives can have, and many a wife is staying in a loveless marriage for one reason or another, often financial. So whose to throw the first stone at another woman who has financial as well as other interests in a relationship?
Earlier in the year I said that I might go a couple months in 2012 without naming a Mistress of the Month and it never happened because there were too many mistresses in the news to ignore. This month I'll be focusing on the holidays and I hope you will be too!
Missy
C 2012 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
Missy Rapport / Mistress Manifesto
One of the discussion issues about Mistresses is defining who is or is not a Mistress. MOST OF THE WOMEN WHO ARE CALLED MISTRESSES IN THE PRESS are NOT! Of all of the modern women who have suffered due to this label is Monica Lewinsky, who was simply in an affair with President William Jefferson Clinton when he was in office, though she may have felt love for him that he didn't have for her. Strangely, it is his denial of her that has set her apart, and possibly made her unmarriagable. Every adulterer is not a mistress or mister, and not every mistress is an adulterer!
In History many mistresses of Kings and other Aristocrats were married (some would say Married OFF) or acknowledged financially. It was considered good for the family. (An example or two is Mary and Ann Bolyn.) Some men, including husbands (think Camilla Parker Bowles' husband Charlie) were tolerant or delighted that their women were of interest to men with power and those men with power sometimes sent the husband away on some official duty but often rewarded them.
These days many mistresses are self supporting.
These days some women are keeping men.
These days some women mistress for a time because it suits their time of life, and move on into marriage or singlehood on purpose.
These days when women have more power over their own lives than ever (though not as much as the feminists would idealize) some are choosing to be with men who cannot or will not marry them.
WHY?
I think it comes down to LOVE.
There isn't the benefits of marriage to a mistress that wives can have, and many a wife is staying in a loveless marriage for one reason or another, often financial. So whose to throw the first stone at another woman who has financial as well as other interests in a relationship?
Earlier in the year I said that I might go a couple months in 2012 without naming a Mistress of the Month and it never happened because there were too many mistresses in the news to ignore. This month I'll be focusing on the holidays and I hope you will be too!
Missy
C 2012 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
Missy Rapport / Mistress Manifesto
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