Maria Shriver 'humbled by the love'....Divorce is an Evil Hamster

Image via CrunchBaseSometimes it is necessary, and for the good of all involved, but it still hurts people no matter what, so today, I declare DIVORCE and Relationships dying as Evil Hamsters.

Maria Shriver has spoken out publicly on her own for the first time since her separation from Arnold Schwarzenegger went public earlier this week.
"Thank you for all the kindness, support and compassion," Shriver said Friday on Twitter. "I am humbled by the love. Thank you."

Photos: 25 years of Shriver, Schwarzenegger

Since word of the couple's split after 25 years of marriage went public Monday, many supportive remarks have been posted to Shriver's YouTube channel, in light of a video she'd posted March 28 in which she discussed being "in transition."

"It is so stressful to not know what you're doing next," Shriver said in the video, above. "I'd like to hear from other people in transition.... How did you get through it? What were three things that enabled you to get through your transition?"

Her husband acknowledged the split publicly Tuesday at a Skirball Cultural Center event celebrating Israeli Independence Day.

"I just talked to Maria an hour ago before I came here," Schwarzenegger said Tuesday, "and we both were saying the same thing, we are amazed and extremely blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful people. We both love each other very much. We are very fortunate that we have four extraordinary children and we're taking one day at a time."

Photos: High-profile political breakups
He's been relatively quiet since Wednesday, when the San Diego County district attorney's office announced it had filed a civil suit against the former governor, seeking to overturn his last-minute reduction of the voluntary-manslaughter prison sentence of the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.

What the future holds for the couple, who've made it clear this is a separation and not yet a divorce, is uncertain.

"Everyone who's shocked by this is reacting to the fairy-tale picture that was promoted," a friend who has been a frequent visitor to the couple's Brentwood mansion told Los Angeles Times reporters early this week.
"I would have had to have been deaf, blind and incredibly stupid not to see that he was more than a handful," Shriver wrote in the introduction to her 2000 book, "10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World."

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Maria Shriver 'humbled by the love'....Divorce is an Evil Hamster

Image via CrunchBaseSometimes it is necessary, and for the good of all involved, but it still hurts people no matter what, so today, I declare DIVORCE and Relationships dying as Evil Hamsters.

Maria Shriver has spoken out publicly on her own for the first time since her separation from Arnold Schwarzenegger went public earlier this week.
"Thank you for all the kindness, support and compassion," Shriver said Friday on Twitter. "I am humbled by the love. Thank you."

Photos: 25 years of Shriver, Schwarzenegger

Since word of the couple's split after 25 years of marriage went public Monday, many supportive remarks have been posted to Shriver's YouTube channel, in light of a video she'd posted March 28 in which she discussed being "in transition."

"It is so stressful to not know what you're doing next," Shriver said in the video, above. "I'd like to hear from other people in transition.... How did you get through it? What were three things that enabled you to get through your transition?"

Her husband acknowledged the split publicly Tuesday at a Skirball Cultural Center event celebrating Israeli Independence Day.

"I just talked to Maria an hour ago before I came here," Schwarzenegger said Tuesday, "and we both were saying the same thing, we are amazed and extremely blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful people. We both love each other very much. We are very fortunate that we have four extraordinary children and we're taking one day at a time."

Photos: High-profile political breakups
He's been relatively quiet since Wednesday, when the San Diego County district attorney's office announced it had filed a civil suit against the former governor, seeking to overturn his last-minute reduction of the voluntary-manslaughter prison sentence of the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.

What the future holds for the couple, who've made it clear this is a separation and not yet a divorce, is uncertain.

"Everyone who's shocked by this is reacting to the fairy-tale picture that was promoted," a friend who has been a frequent visitor to the couple's Brentwood mansion told Los Angeles Times reporters early this week.
"I would have had to have been deaf, blind and incredibly stupid not to see that he was more than a handful," Shriver wrote in the introduction to her 2000 book, "10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World."

RELATED:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver announce separation
Meet Patrick Schwarzenegger, Arnold and Maria's enterprising son
Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger split: What's next for the family?

Copy write and all rights reserved for shared content by the original authors. Original Content, title and trademark reserved by Cloud Concepts Incorporated, LLC., a California Corporation.

Sex at the movies: Twanna Hines and I review Orgasm Inc.

Even though she didn't believe me that Quad Cinema, one of NYC's independent movie theaters, existed (really), Twanna Hines and I finally made it over to 13th Street to check out Liz Canner's documentary Orgasmic, Inc.. We did a relatively short review below, and you can see Tracy Quan's interesting take on it at MyDaily. You can also follow @Orgasm_Inc on Twitter and like the film on Facebook. Apologies for being so slow to get this posted; let's blame it on technical difficulties.

I definitely encourage you to see it; if anything, it will make you look at the pharmaceutical industry with a bit more skepticism (if you don't already), and the idea of what women "should" be doing when it comes to orgasms is something I will be exploring in a future SexIs Magazine column, both related to this film and in general, because in my personal experience there is a lot of pressure on women (okay, me) to have orgasms in ways that feel unrelated to my personal pleasure, and in fact impede that pleasure by putting so much focus on it, but that's another discussion.

Dusty Horn reading her lesbian erotica story "Share" from Orgasmic

Please join us, and tell your San Francisco/Bay Area friends, to join us on January 28th; here's the official Facebook invite if you want to let people know about it, but you don't need to RSVP. You'll be among the first to get your hands on Violet Blue's new book Total Flirt and copies of Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex, with stories by me and Donna George Storey, will also be for sale! And free cupcakes, including vegan ones! Below is Dusty reading from her story "Share" from Orgasmic at Orgasm Night at In The Flesh. She also has a very hot story called "Subdue" in Best Bondage Erotica 2011 that I'm sure she'll sign at Booksmith too!

Next on my reading list: Cami Ostman's marathon memoir Second Wind

I like working with publishers, such as Harlequin, Cleis Press and Seal Press, to name three, that publish books I like to read. They all do, and while I don't have time to read everything they publish, I try to keep up and have discovered some amazing authors that way. While Seal always has lots of titles I'm interested in (I'm basically the target audience for Pretty Neat, you know?), what I love about discovering books the most is just that: the discovery. The act of hearing about a book in some fashion, usually through a friend, review, via social media or, in this case, via the publisher, and thinking, Wow, that sounds amazing. Also in this case, thinking, And that is the perfect gift for my marathon-running stepfather.

So I haven't read it yet, but I look forward to the memoir Second Wind: One Woman's Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents. Her official site is 7marathons7continents.com and you can also keep track of her goal to run a marathon in each of the 50 United States by 2017!

Publisher's description:

Second Wind is the story of an unlikely athlete and an unlikely heroine: Cami Ostman, a woman edging toward midlife who decides to take on a challenge that stretches her way outside of her comfort zone. That challenge presents itself when an old friend suggests she go for a run to distract her from the grief of her recent divorce. Excited by the clarity of mind and breathing space running offers her, she keeps it up—albeit slowly. Soon the old friend, Bill, now a romantic interest, invites her to Prague to run a marathon. Little does either of them know that this race will be the first of many international marathons, and that it will ignite a quest to run seven marathons on seven continents.

Up hills and through flash floods, more often alone than with company, Cami forges a path through some of the most exotic places in the world—and into some of the most enlightened, and darkest, places in the psyche. Insightful and uplifting, Second Wind carries the reader along for the ride as Cami runs her way out of compliance with the patriarchal rules about “being a woman” that long held her captive and into authenticity and self-love. Her adventures—and the personal revelations that accompany them—will inspire readers to take chances, find truth in their lives, and learn to listen to the voice inside them that’s been there all along.



I liked the book trailer because she said some things like "You need to find your own authentic pace in life" that transcend running, even though her book is about running. Of course it's about more than that (okay, maybe not "of course," but as an avid memoir reader, there is almost always something more going on that the surface topic).