Coffee, Chaos and Cuss Words

Why can't we have Adult-only spaces? Why does everything have to be 'family friendly'? What happened to the days when children had to grow up, learn the rules of proper behavior at home and THEN were brought out into the world? Seems to me that the problem is (as usual) not the kids, but the parents. Parents, desperately afraid they are going to miss out on a LIFE since they've had children, suddenly are up-in-arms whenever someone suggests any kind of adults-only space. There seems to be a ridiculous backlash whenever a restaurant, movie theater, or other business try to set aside a place for adults to be with other adults SANS kids. Those parents feel entitled to run roughshod over everyone else's rights and protest that it isn't fair that  their little darlings can't be part of the club. The real issue is why THEY can't be part of the club. These parents are free to frequent any of these establishments, just NOT with their kids in tow. Have we really ...

I ran across a forum on Reddit (still don't get that thing) and the topic on whether those over 55 regretted not having children to look after them as they aged. Certainly this is not the first time I'd heard that issue brought up. In my own family, the pressure to breed or adopt was intense,  and it was always accompanied by a frantic query about how I would cope without kids in my old age. I've always thought it to be one of the most awful things to have children out of some need to make sure that someone has to be there to take care of you when you get old. Funny, I never thought that anyone asking me about this was truly inquiring about me and how I was going to be cared for in my golden years. I always felt they were asking for validation that someone would be looking after them when they got older. I never worried about it and had always joked that 'I planned to be a burden on the taxpayers in a nursing home' when I got older. Now that I'm 49, I am consid...

[caption id="attachment_59" align="aligncenter" width="158"] Greek Goddess Artemis[/caption] What follows is a short submission I wrote back in March 2014 for a Pagan blog about my feelings of being a Childfree Pagan. It continues to be difficult at times in a child/mother centric world to be Childfree and not feel ostracized. Even when practicing Paganism / Wicca / Witchcraft / Druidism, etc....you'd be surprised at just how UN-accepting people can be at times. I wanted to share this here at My Crazy Childfree Mid-Life, because this is part of who I am as well. Not just Childfree by Choice, but also a woman who walks a spiritual path which has been difficult at times due to my choice to be and remain Childfree.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I chose to be Childfree long before I came to walk a Pagan path. I never wanted to have children. I am not a child-hater (despite what many...

I recently had some discussions with folks about the subject of property taxes and education. There was a picture going around with some guy saying that even though he had no children he 'liked' to pay taxes because he liked living in a country with less stupid people.  I proceeded to express my opinion that his logic was flawed. There is no correlation between paying taxes and higher intelligence. There is no evidence to prove that all kids who graduate from high school are actually more intelligent than those who got GED's or dropped out. People who go to school are equally as likely of being 'stupid' as people who don't. Because what we call 'stupid' is actually immaturity, poor judgement, and a lack of common sense. None of those are things guaranteed with a high school diploma, or an increase in our property tax bill... Another bit of fun was being told that I should not be against paying taxes because someday, these children, educated by my tax dol...