Explore pop-culture, current events, hot-button topics and all things relationship-related with Pittsburgh native, editor and co-founder of twodaymag, Natalie Bencivenga.
Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mamas out there! Enjoy these pearls of wisdom from your tv-mom counterparts who often say the things you always wanted to!
If you are like me, you detest celebrity gossip websites. You view them as everything that is wrong with society; they are invasive, catty, and profit off of the alleged misconducts of stars and their loved ones.
I stumbled upon this video on YouTube today and the timing couldn’t be anymore perfect. I’m sure many of you are aware that North Carolina has now banned gay marriage from the state, thus subjugating the LGBTQ community to a life of second-class citizenship. In case anyone has any confusion, civil unions or domestic partnerships are NOT the same as a legal marriage and do not contain nearly the same amount of privileges and legal rights that a heterosexual couple receives when married by the state.
Sick of the same old online dating experience? Looking to spice things up in a Bonnie-and-Clyde sort of way? Well, you are in luck, my friends! Meet-An-Inmate.com is a website dedicated to hooking you up with hot people behind bars.
Here’s a quote from the website:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Oh, to have the life of a evangelical professional football player. Or wait a minute...maybe not.
In case you haven’t heard, AshleyMadison.com is offering one million dollars to any woman who can prove that she has had sexual intercourse with Tim Tebow. I know, sleazy right? But then again, when your website helps people to cheat on their spouses, what do you expect?
This year, I began my first year playing professional golf on the tour. Playing golf on tour can be a lonely experience. One thing many people don't realize is how isolated the tour is from the real world. When you are gone two to three weeks at a time, maintaining relationships at home can seem impossible. I worried when I started playing professionally how I would create a sense of normalcy on the road, and if I would have meaningful friendships.
Being a student of the University of Pittsburgh, you would think that I would know more about the bomb threat investigation that has made national news rather than someone who was not at all affiliated with the University.
Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
When seeking information about these unsettling threats, I turn to online news sites in order to get information about the investigation. The University seldom updates us on the progress of the investigation directly. The only information we are privy to is when the bomb threats happen and where so we know to evacuate. We also receive the occasional new email about the measures that the University is taking to deal with the problem and to, as they say, ensure our safety.
So today is my 28th birthday and I have been reflecting on the past 12 months (and the past 28 years) of my life and what I would tell my 18 year old self if I could. Here is a list of 5 life lessons I have learned along my journey so far. Maybe you will identify with one, and feel free to post your own life lessons in the comment section below.
First of all, let me first state that I know no intimate details about Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart’s relationship. It could be marvelous, stupendous, the paradigm of health and happiness, etc., etc…
Either way, I have no idea. Jennifer and I aren’t what you’d call “tight.”
What little I know is what I see on the covers of magazines and the stories they run when it’s a slow news day on ABC; shortly after the dissolution Jennifer Lopez’s third marriage, Ms. Lopez was already said to be dating a Mr. Casper Smart, a backup dancer who is some fifteen years her junior.
It’s no secret that transgender people are perhaps the most commonly mocked members of our society. I believe this because they are terribly misunderstood.
This has been very aptly demonstrated in the recent firestorm over Canadian beauty queen Jenna Talackova’s expulsion from and then re-admittance to the Miss Universe pageant on the grounds that she was not born a female, despite the fact that she knew that at the age of four that she was a girl trapped in a boy’s body, began hormone therapy at the age of 14, and surgically changed her gender four years ago at 19.
Some people are upset she was expelled in the first place, others were upset she was allowed back in. She was originally expelled for not being a “natural born” woman, but after a little discussion with GLAAD, she was allowed back into the competition.
The very terminology sends people into a tizzy. What does transgender mean? What does it entail? Is she really a woman? Can a person be both a woman and transgender? Can we still find her attractive? Is she really a him because she was born a him?
Because sometimes you’re just not in the zone...
Yes, you read the title of this article correctly. Sometimes, people do end up in bed together and don’t have to have sex to be intimate or to have fun. Whether you are abstaining for personal reasons, are not in the mood, or are just plain exhausted, not every evening needs to end with a bang. Here are 5 fun ideas to try in bed with your lover that keep intimacy alive (without the sex).
Last week I was chatting with my father who is a golf professional, and he was telling me about how he used to get so upset with himself on the golf course. His mother had introduced him to the game while living in Mexico, and he had just started playing competitively. He walked off the course one day after playing and went home and started complaining to his mom about all the bad shots he hit. Nothing went right out there and he couldn't get over all the mistakes he made. Mama Cuy looked him and said, "Whenever I hear you talk about your rounds you only remember the bad shots. When I play, I remember the good shots because I hit so few of them."
When my father told me this story, it reminded me of how often I remember the good shots I hit on the golf course. It usually plays out like this: "I played well today, except I missed that three footer for birdie, and then I missed the green on the next hole, and then I missed another birdie putt."
All negative.
Love is an action word, after all....
Sometimes, when we are in relationships, it is easy to become complacent and “let things be.” We start to really let our guards down (which is great!) but that can also mean becoming a little bit lazy within the relationship. Maybe we don’t text each other during the day as much. Maybe we don’t ask if they want us to pick them up dinner on the way home from work or school. Maybe we throw our clothes all over the bedroom and shrug when they can’t find the bed.
So your new relationship is moving right along just in time for a spring vacay. Yes! Or maybe you and your single pals are so over the dating scene you decide to get out of town for a little R & R, or perhaps a little mischief too! Simple etiquette can ensure when you are on holiday that you and everyone you are with have a great time. Here are five simple tips for vacationing together.