Um, I have this painful need to expose my painfully embarrassing aspects. And in that spirit, I just thought you should know that I am sitting on the couch (not alone!!!) and watching…The View. Ugh. Well, I am. And guess who is today’s musical guest? Yep–Neil Diamond. He is singing two songs from his new album, the one I stayed awake to listen to last night. And, prophetically, it is the two songs I selected as my favorite, as the ones that speak so intimately to my own world. First he played “We” which is basically a cheesy/sappy lovesong which says that love is about two people (ie “We”) together. And then, he closed with the song I felt deeply last night. Called, “Men are so easy.” Yeah, it can be taken to be about something more interesting than it is. It actually says that Men are just Boys disguised, simple and innocent and not intentionally troublesome if you “…love them and let them be free.” which I thought I needed to remember in my own life in my bed alone.

But now it is all just horrible because the ladies on The View are talking about how they love those songs and how his new album is amazing and I have to confront that fact that at my core I may be a cheesy 40-something year-old woman with not so refined tastes. Ugh.