Last summer I wrote about the British grandmother who married Osama bin Laden’s son, Omar. At the time of their marriage, the 52-year-old new Mrs. bin Laden defended the father of her 26-year-old sixth husband. “I mean, do you know – beyond all doubt – that he did it? If so, I’d like you to [...]
A new book about the Clinton’s marriage is out and its a pretty brutal account of why the Clintons have stayed married all these years – and how they have built the Clinton machine that got them to power and keeps them there. Sixteen years ago this month, just as Bill was facing his first [...]
At first glance the marriage of 51-year-old Brit Jane Felix-Browne to 27-year-old Saudi Omar Ossama bin Laden might seem a mismatch. I mean, she’s old enough to be his mother, not to mention her new father-in-law is Osama bin Laden. But when you look beneath the surface just a little you see they have more [...]
As I write this, my Beloved Curmudgeon is watching one of Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns. I don’t know which one. Does it matter? They all have the same characters, are filmed in the same place and have the same music. I am often blogging with any one of those movies playing in the background. Our [...]
My Beloved Curmudgeon and I have a reasonably happy marriage. Most of the time we get along well, enjoy the same things, have basically the same views (I’m not quite as hard-core as he is), think the same things are funny and have the same cynical outlook on life. In between those times we tolerate [...]