All this and Heaven, too.

Seriously, I want to know. Is there ever any point where grown women stop creating drama by fabricating lies and gossip? I mean, don't get me wrong, I like a juicy tidbit as much as the next gal. I'll even admit that one of my dear friends calls me 'Hedda', after the ye olde timey gossip maven of the 1940's. I like to keep abreast, I like to watch, I like to giggle. And I don't apologize for any of that....so let's just get that out of the way before I'm accused of being a prude. :)

HOWEVER, I have been dealing lately with a plethora of women who should be, like, SO over the idea of destroying another woman's reputation. What is this, Dynasty? One Life to Live? Should I get myself a dress with football player shoulder pads and a swimming pool so I can lounge by it? Please, grown women. Please. Be grown.

I have a theory. An unpopular theory, if it were to find it's way out to the masses. I have this crazy un-feminist idea that the small group of women who create the most drama and gossip are the same ones who have never had children. *hides her face and waits for rotten tomatoes*

I said it, OK??? I said it! And I am not taking it back!!!

The unfortunate connection that I find is this; sometimes when a woman chooses not to have children, the center of their world becomes...themselves. It's all about them, their needs, their importance, their opinions, blah, blah, blah.

Gossip is their baby, drama is their child.

That doesn't mean I think all childless women fall into that category, not by a long shot! However, it's an odd coincidence that all the women who are currently trying to wreak havoc in my life and the lives of my friends for their own petty reasons, all happen to be over a certain age, and childless, with no intention of changing that status. Make of it what you will! It's how I see it.

So does that mean I am the MOST caring, MOST wonderful, MOST unselfish women ever because I have several children?

Yes. It does.

≈Carolyn