I followed a link today to a website that had a tower banner for Kiva.org. Anyone ever heard of it before? I think it’s a fantastic idea for a way for those more fortunate to help someone else who hasn’t been quite so lucky.

I visited the site and it looks really good. The goal is to match up “lenders” with those who need a helping hand getting their business going. It’s all about microcredit. Small loans that make a huge difference in someone’s life.

There’s a woman in Sarajevo who needs money to plant her spring crops, and a woman in Nigeria needs some money to buy fish to dry and sell, a surgeon in Nicaragua needs $1175 to build a room onto his house out of wood and many more. The woman in the photo is Agatha Adutwumwaa, a 60-year-old mother of 6 in Ghana who needs a loan of $675 so she can buy fabric in bulk and not have to travel to a nearby village for supplies quite so often.

So why does my cynical mind wonder if this is all for real? I guess I’ve run into so many online scammers that I don’t automatically think of something wonderful like this being real. I want this to be real.

Has anyone had an experience with this site? If it’s legit, I’d do my bit to help someone if the money I loaned went to the person and not to some big organization. It really pisses me off to donate to a large group only to have 15% or less of the money donated actually go to doing good works.

I was sitting at the shopping center waiting for family who were off doing God knows what and making the old bitty wait. To be honest I didn’t mind waiting because I got to perve at all the men with great butts but that’s not what I wanted to discuss here today.

As I sat there watching all the men, I noticed what many of them were doing.. they were watching all the pretty women, especially the scantily clad ones. I know I shouldn’t admit this but when I gazed — below — I could tell that several of these men were getting boners while they were perving the women. It didn’t seem fair. I was doing the same thing to them but nobody could tell what I was doing.

Of course this encouraged me to continue my investigation as to how many times I could find “Mr. Tripod” in public situations. Not to chuckle and point, but just for pure curiosity about human sexuality. Well, deary me, it happens everywhere. I was at the ice cream joint in town and this woman came in with spandex shorts and a very visible g-string poking out the top and the guy waiting for his cone decided to create his own in his pants. I wanted to chuckle, I really did.

The results of my investigations are that it happens to most every man at one time or another and some are embarrassed and cover it up and some are really proud of what nature has provided and want to show it off to anyone who’ll look. I looked. A sexy old broad has to keep up her reputation.

Notice she was hit from behind and probably by a man! I’m positive she didn’t get this by backing up.

Have you been looking for a way to bring back that old spark you and your date once had? Remember being young and making out in the car where you couldn’t keep your hands off each other?

The best bit was that you were *almost* public? It felt so naughty and exciting that it made you want him (or her) even more? (Trust me, I’m only going on hearsay here in case my kids ever read this.)

Next time you go out to dinner or to a movie, don’t head straight home. Go out parking. If you only recently met you’ll both remember those days but it will be totally new with each other. It won’t be comfortable and it will feel a bit silly at first but go with it. You’ll laugh and cuddle and most of all, you’ll be “in the moment” together with the person you love the most.

Too often we let our family life become like our work life. Lists of things to get done and no time to look each other in the eye and be there for each other to the exclusion of everything else. I know it’s hard to get the time but it only takes a few moments to let the other know you hold them in your heart every single moment. It’s a very special feeling.