Love, Sex, Lifestyle Ruth Ostrow

Holiday Clues not Blues

Ruth Ostrow — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:04:10 +0000

Three things you’ll really want to know about this holiday period like how to save your relationship. Hi readers, I’m off on holidays for a few weeks, but here are snipets from three of my up’n'coming columns in The Australian which will run while I’m away including how to avoid holiday blues. You can leave

Call Centre Blues

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:51:47 +0000

Call Centres are driving us all crazy I WAS dealing with a call centre recently, trying to get something I had organised to be cancelled. The process was exhausting. Every time I called I had to stay on the line for at least a half hour because of the pre-Christmas backup. And each time I

Why and how we get scammed

Ruth Ostrow — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:26:49 +0000

How and why do we get conned? According to Paul J. Zak neuro-economist, and columnist for Psychology Today it’s about brain chemicals A COLLEAGUE of mine got caught in a Nigerian money scam before much was known about them. And he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was bright, head of a leading company,

Don’t sweat the small stuff

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:01:41 +0000

We fret our daily pains without remembering how trivial much of it is IT’S been a hell of a week for me. Many things have gone wrong, with one drama snowballing into another. The only thing that’s kept me above water was hanging out for an amazing trip we had planned for Christmas. Even though

Depression at Work

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:52:26 +0000

Depression at work is becoming an epidemic around the world. IT’s interesting that while people who haven’t got jobs or have been recently laid off tend to despair, actually having a job doesn’t ensure happiness. A global study reported in The Wall Street Journal claims that almost a quarter of the global workforce is depressed.

Sex surrogacy

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:01:19 +0000

We should respect those who help with sexual problems not condemn them. I’VE known several sex surrogates and have admired them all, which is why I was so surprised recently to hear that a Melbourne sex therapist had called them glorified prostitutes and called for an end to the practice. Surrogates are women or men

Bullying with a smile

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:18:43 +0000

Even smiling at the wrong time can be considered workplace bullying. IT was another interesting example of political correctness gone crazy. My friend, a senior manager, was asked to attend a retraining course on workplace bullying in the light of tough new laws. As someone who has had her fair share of bullying rising up

How to deal with suffering

Ruth Ostrow — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:03:03 +0000

It’s hard to stomach world suffering IT’S been a horrible few weeks in the world, and a hard time for sensitive people. The daily news has been so distressing and appalling that if I were not a journalist, I wouldn’t turn on or read the news. As it is, I can’t read the papers over

Kids and music

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:03:51 +0000

With iPod earphones strapped to their ears, kids today are missing out on musical riches of days gone by. I GREW up surrounded by music. Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were playing for much of my early childhood. My father’s family came from Europe and brought with them an old record player and loads of classical records.

Teenagers and Party Drugs

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:11:37 +0000

Agonising over ecstasy: What do we tell our kids about party drugs in the era of the backyard mix? IT was a horrible story — every parent’s nightmare. A number of years ago the daughter of an acquaintance died. She was only 18 and had just finished her Higher School Certificate. She was a lovely,

Lying

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:53:29 +0000

There’s been a lot of admissions of lying in the paper these past week. Is it ever OK to lie? Olympic swimmer Kenrick Monk, recently broke down crying and admitted he invented a story about being hit by a P-plate driver as he rode his bike to training. Monk, who is 23, faced the media

Positive attitude

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:42:17 +0000

To what extent does having a positive disposition change your Fate? I SAW a local store owner, whom I shall call ‘‘Sam’’, in the street recently. His shop seems empty a lot of the time. I politely asked how he was going and was met with an angry tirade about how no one comes in

Marrying the wrong person?

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:25:48 +0000

30 per cent of women get married to the wrong person, knowingly US social worker and writer Jennifer Gauvain in her Huffington Post column recently wrote that 30 per cent of women ‘‘dated and eventually married the wrong guy’’. She sent a survey to divorced women, asking: ‘ ‘Did you know you were making a

Writings on Sex & Relatonships

Ruth Ostrow — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:50:55 +0000

Click HERE The Sex Archives or the Menu Panel for all my writings on sexuality

Animals shot in the wild

Ruth Ostrow — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:46:56 +0000

Animals are instantly killed for attacking people in the wild, recently 3 bear cubs. It’s unjust. THERE have been several incidents of animals attacking humans recently. Several shark attacks; two incidents involving bears — one a polar bear attacking a young camper, and another bear and her cubs in Russia eating a young woman; there