Not long ago I had dinner at the home of some friends who have small daughters and, remembering how much I loved stickers when I was little, I brought some stickers over to the girls. As we adults were standing around talking, the little one took out her stickers and started putting them on the adults - and on her dad, this was about where she could reach. We all watched, trying not to laugh, as she dazzled her dad’s outfit with stickers. Eventually his entire pants legs were peppered with stickers, but this (above) is how is started. Ah, the innocence of little children for whom pants are just pants.

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This "Year in Review" was originally written as part of a longer column by Mary Schmick of The Chicago Tribune and has been reposted on various web sites and this one is no exception. Whether it’s your sex life, romantic relationship, work issues, family relationships or personal-inside-stuff-that-you-don’t-much-talk-about-to-others, you might find it helpful or useful or interesting to go through this list, as I did:

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PERSONAL YEAR IN REVIEW

In 2005, I gained ——————————–.

I lost ——————————————-.

I stopped —————————————-.

I started —————————————-.

I was hugely satisfied by ————————.

And frustrated by ——————————–.

I am so embarrassed that I ———————–.

Once again, I ————————————.

Once again, I did not —————————-.

The biggest physical difference between me last December and this December is ———————–.

The biggest psychological difference between me last December and this

December is ————————————–.

I loved spending time —————————-.

Why did I spend even two minutes —————–?

I should have spent more time ——————–.

I regret buying ———————————-.

I will never regret buying ——— even though with that money I could have bought ————————-.

I ———————————– way too much.

I didn’t ———————————- enough.

———————————– drove me crazy.

Was ————— crazier than ever last year? Or was it me?

The most relaxing place I went was —————.

I feel so —————– when I write that down.

Why did I go to ———————————-?

The best thing I did for someone else was ——–.

The best thing I did for myself was ————–.

The best thing someone did for me was ————.

The one thing I’d like to do again, but do it better, is ——————-.

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I don’t watch much television, however in an afternoon of vegging out on the sofa, I did catch half of an episode of King of Queens in which one of Doug and Carrie’s guy friends may or may not have cheated on his wife. The women had very different definitions of "cheating" than did the men and Carrie was telling her dad, Arthur (played by Jerry Stiller) that she was angry at her husband presumably for both siding with his friend and for feeling differently about cheating than she did. Arthur pointed out to Carrie that she wasn’t angry at her husband, but she was scared that their marriage could fall apart too.

Oddly enough, I think this was a very good point. A friend of mine once said to me that he thought nearly all emotions stemmed from either fear or love. A friend of his felt that really everything stemmed from love (that even fear was fear of losing something that you loved). When I think of my own life and relationships, and the women and men I’ve worked with, I think these things are true. I think it’s good to be aware of this so that we can remember how much we love our partner or our relationship and how we can protect that.

[Image from this site.]

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I was watching Muppets in Space for a moment today and was reminded of how Gonzo’s nose reminds me of an uncircumcised penis (see above). A quick Google search of "gonzo and penis" suggests that I am clearly not the only person who has noticed this. In fact, it’s not just uncircumcised penises. Some women and men describe very curved erect penises as "gonzo penises" and may even take advantage of the curve to enhance g spot stimulation.

 [Images from this site and this site.]

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Sexuality is relevant to health, to education and to economics. Read this very well written (and accurate) op-ed "Getting real with sex education" from the Boston Globe on this web site. The article references Jamie Lynn Spears (whose unplanned pregnancy could have perhaps been prevented with better sexual health education), former Surgeon General David Satcher, W and others. 

(Thanks, Chris.)

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