Owner: Sex and the Beach URL:http://sexandthebeach.blogspot.com Join Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:44:42 -0500 Rating:1 Site Description: You won't find me on the side of a bus. I AM THE BUS! Manola BBB is a semi-fictional character and the pen name of a wordsmith born, raised, praised and laid in the magic city. She tackles all subjects sex and love with nutty humor! Site statistics:Click here
Happy Oxytocin Day! 2008-02-14 10:30:00 I don't think you have to be a scientist to realize chemical bonding must be absolutely necessary between lovers. After all, how else would we put up with all the extra-curricular crap outside the bedroom if it weren't for some hormone that makes us go ga-ga?"In humans, oxytocin is thought to be released during hugging, touching, and orgasm in both sexes. In the brain, oxytocin is involved in social recognition and bonding, and may be involved in the formation of trust between people and generosity." -- More at Wikipedia.So you know what that means: on this day, go stimulate yourself and your lover enough to produce gallons of oxytocin, because you know there are going to be days when you have to tap into the reserves!tags: valentine , oxytocinYou won't see me on the side of the bus! Read more:Happy
Cold Weather Crisis in Florida!!! 2008-01-04 10:07:00 It was very cold in Miami during the past couple of days. Cold trumps everything for us tropical creatures, zOMG! I mean even the iguana that lives in the tree behind my apartment died! It was floating in the Biscayne Waterway, so sad! Plus, there was free frozen gator meat festival in the Everglades all weekend. Oy! Let's not even talk about citrus fruit and such. This was one hell of a cold front. It even snowed in Daytona, typically the land of hot rods and loud carburetors. Do you think Julia Tuttle could've pulled the wool over Henry Flagler's eyes with this one? Julia Tuttle, the founding "mama" of Miami, sent Flagler orange blossoms as proof we do not have freezes down here, just to encourage him to extend the railroad down to our hot, sticky swamp. Julia, was that a well- Read more:Cold Weather
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Shoe Shopping in Dubai 2007-12-28 10:10:00 Just wanted to say thank you to SO MANY people who have made a difference in my life this year. I will list none here, because there are so many and I would hate to leave anyone out. What is this, an Oscar's acceptance speech? Alright, already! You know who you are and I heart you! Wishing my readers, clients and friends much love, health and prosperity now and in the year to come.And yes, let's go shoe shopping!tags: you tube, dubai, giftsYou won't see me on the side of the bus! I AM THE BUS! A single woman's guide to chronic living on South Beach. Read more:Dubai
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Erotic Verse: Cherub 2008-03-17 10:04:00 Rosy-cheeked, a giggling cherubTumbled blithely down from heavenAnd alighted on a treeLittle fingers, plump and determinedPulled the taut string backBut I pierced him insteadWith tender, blue-eyed mischief"Hmpf!" he puffed "you're already in love"And just like that, this winged harbinger of heartsTossed his curly tufts and flitted awaytags: poetry, erotic, love, cherub, cupidYou won't see me on the side of the bus! I AM THE BUS! A single woman's guide to chronic living on South Beach.
South Beach: Requiem or Rhapsody? 2008-03-25 22:24:00 "When the quest to fill your inner emptiness by appropriating something from outside becomes desperate, repetitive, or automatic you have what is called an addiction." -- Edmund J. Bourne, The Anxiety & Phobia WorkbookAddiction. That's brilliant. There's no better way to describe my relationship to this place. I was addicted to the idea of the beach, even though, two and half years ago, I started this blog in a process that was really the beginning of the end. I had some kind of unnatural attachment to the island and everything it represented -- a life of longing, a life of being single with no responsibilities, a life of flotsam and jetsam, minus the consequences. A life of cocktails, minus the hangovers. A life of tourism, a life of running away, traveling to and from my own li Read more:Beach
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Relationships, Part 1 2008-03-24 12:13:00 Well, lots of change going on ... "we" may be moving off the beach, but no matter ... this blog has always been about sex and relationships. Relationships
with self, with others, with sex, even relationships with ... especially relationships with place ... stay tuned.And besides, who wouldn't want Manola reporting from other locales?"Everything is about relationships. The most important relationship you can have is with you.""I think most of us in social media realize this -- it's not the media, it's the relationships that are formed that are most important.""Relationships shouldn't be a mirror. It should be a fucking reality check. How can you make me a better person?""This I think is the key to any social media circumstances ... want to ... not because you have to."tags: miami, seesm
Traveling Light 2008-04-07 14:40:00 A funny thing happens when you decide to let go of all your material possessions. You realize that they were never really yours and that those things you do own -- your heart, faith, purpose and love -- are the things that no one person or circumstance can take away from you.An even funnier thing happens when you decide to let go of your attachment to place. You realize that as a spiritual being on a human journey, being rooted anywhere is just a temporary illusion. The most important anchor you have is yourself.I'm getting a divorce and having an affair all at once -- separating from places, people and things that no longer serve me and falling in love with all that truly matters. This is an interior place of peace that only exists within. It doesn't have a name. It's not on any map. Read more:Traveling
Alexander's Note 2008-05-07 08:00:00 I come from a family that left their homeland with nothing but the clothes on their backs, so it's interesting that I have little, if any, attachment to personal belongings. I detest clutter, but my mother hoards all her countless knick-knacks with the possessive zealousness of a child. Her life is measured by an inventory of things she owns, whereas my life is measured by an inventory of things I've done.I sometimes wonder if her sense of loss inspires the compulsion to be a pack rat; I also wonder if my seeming detachment betrays some fear of loss. This much I do know: what I possess should never possess me.I once promised myself, however, that I'd always keep a treasure chest -- one simple box filled with all the little things that shore up memories.Recently, after making the decisi Read more:Alexander
Raleigh Runway Caper 2008-05-14 12:15:00 Video shot in March 2008 of the now infamous pool."Effortlessly chic, impossibly seductive." -- Conde Nast Traveler"Full of shit, impossibly snobby." -- The Locals Guide to BS in SBSo last Sunday some friends and I decided to meet at The Raleigh Hotel for a leisurely afternoon of mojitos, sandwiches and good conversation -- an activity we've enjoyed more than once in the past.At one such gatheri Read more:Caper
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Slab of Beef 2008-06-02 22:20:00 Somewhere in South Miami, a better beach to have sex: no buildings, no hotels, no tourists, no attitude ... just beach.You can take the girl out of the beach but you can't take the beach out of the girl. Had you been an iguana sunning on the shore, you may have overheard this mobile phone conversation at Matheson Hammock Park.Manola: OMG, there are two horse shoe crabs mating!Friend: Really?
Hurricane Season Boyfriend 2008: Hope Blows 2008-06-16 15:40:00 Actually, hope floats on Biscayne Bay. Look it, I don't make this shit up! This extraordinary piece of driftwood was just lying there during low tide, ok? Taken at Matheson Hammock Park by yours truly.Since June 1st, I've been thinking about whom I would choose as this year's Hurricane Season
Boyfriend. In seasons past, I've chosen men for their ability to perform duties around the house who wo
Erotic Verse: Skinny Dipping 2008-07-01 21:39:00 A sudden splash: my sly eyes lowered stillAbove the swaggering man, his thighs caressedBy the dark waves, my hands caught in his thrill,He holds me helpless crest upon crest.How can those terrified shy fingers roamThe wearied glory from my loosening thighs?And how can body, laid in that white foamBut feel the strange heart beating where it lies?A shudder in the loins engenders yetThe broken lust,
Biker Chic 2008-06-26 14:30:00 The legendary Lourdes Bretos in Daytona. The Cuban flag hangs from Harley Davidsons.One of the reasons I moved back to the mainland was to focus on a project I've been wanting to do for years. In the coming months, I will be working on a historical memoir about Harley Davidson culture in Cuba, as seen through the eyes of Lourdes Bretos, my dad's cousin. Lourdes was the daughter of Luis Bretos, Read more:Biker
Planet Manola: Of Madames and Spinsters 2008-06-25 10:34:00 Random news, commentary and photographs. Updated at least once every menstrual cycle, if not more frequently. Have you ever been out on a date and felt exactly like this? Photo by Shveckle.LOVE/HATEA forum member at Talk Night Life posted a link to my Raleigh Runway Caper piece and inspired a little discussion, mainly about tourism. One member, however, expressed his opinion about Sex and the Be
Planet Manola: The Truth Is Out There 2008-07-18 09:09:00 Photo by Ipanemic.HEALTHY IS SEXYOn the one-year anniversary of my heart troubles, my dear friend Stephanie Quilao, publisher of Back in Skinny Jeans, asked me to write a guest post on her blog about a very personal issue I've never discussed here.She urged me to share my untold story because I have recently made a complete recovery from a crippling, long-term episode of anxiety disorder and ago Read more:Truth
Planet Manola: Of Poems, Plants and Photos 2008-07-05 09:22:00 Random news, commentary and photographs. Updated at least once every menstrual cycle, if not more frequently. I mounted some stranger's parked Harley at Monty's and my dear buddy Ipanemic went into one of his wonderful, intense shutter-clicking trances!SEASONAL AMNESIANot long ago, I bumped into my high school English teacher while taking the Metrorail downtown. Peggy Hall is retired now, but s Read more:Plants
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Housekeeping 2008-08-01 20:32:00 There will be some missing images here for a while until I regain access to an old server. Pardon the mess!You won't see me on the side of the bus! I AM THE BUS! A single woman's guide to chronic living on South Beach.
Sexcrunch: Looking for Sex in All the Right Spaces 2008-07-29 14:17:00 All the news that's fit for bed, served between the sheets. Don't ever say you aren't getting any! Photo by the fabulous Miami FeverMORE THAN JUST A PITY FUCKSexual Healing, an article by Michael J. Mooney at Broward/Palm Beach New Times touches on the emotional side of sexuality. If you really think about it, how many of us aren't in need of the right healing touch? It's no wonder there is onl Read more:Right
Nature Girl: Fishing 2008-07-24 14:41:00 Photo courtesy of Angie ChestnutSince I started my Volunteering at Fairchild blog, a Flick friend of mine, keylargo_diver – who takes wonderful photos of South Florida with vintage cameras, by the way – started teasing me about this new side to Manola. “It makes me think of Carl Hiassen’s novel, Nature Girl,” he noted. I had never read Hiassen’s novel, so I picked up a copy at the lib Read more:Fishing
When It Rains, It Pours 2008-08-18 14:06:00 Fay has me feeling nostalgic about strange Miami Beach experiences that have happened before storms. Hurricane Andrew of '92 comes to mind: my gal pal and I hanging out at a Club Douche, not taking storm warnings seriously. But the parent of a friend of ours was one of the dudes who flew into the storms on those specially equipped, turbulence-buster airplanes. He had been warning everyone: shi
La Latica 2008-08-15 12:42:00 La LaticaA dissertation on the cheap aluminum Cuban bidet.A dissertation of sorts on the cheap aluminum Cuban bidet. Gives whole new meaning to Campbell's soup, mmm mmm good!Actually, I have never seen "a keng" in any "Cuban womenz" bathroom, but a friend suggested this post idea to me!Speaking of Cuban womenz, guess which Jewish gringo boy just ate a chonga with cream cheese?You won't see me on
Lessons from the Garden 2008-08-14 14:46:00 I wrote this story in 2005, several months before I started this blog. Obviously, I'm not in love anymore, but the person I mention in the last paragraph was Mr. Thinks He's Huge and the man I left was Sir Fish A Lot. It doesn't matter -- what matters is the story. And it would matter more if it gets anyone to think about the importance of love in one's life. It certainly itched my marrow tod Read more:Garden
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Aging: It's Not Just for Old People Anymore! 2008-08-13 11:23:00 Beautiful skin has no age limits? Yeah, right. My big fat Cuban ass!So the other day I went to CVS to pick up a few items and I happened to walk through the deodorant aisle when I was gently reminded that I should be concerned about the youthful appearance of my armpits. Yes, my armpits! Holy mother of cow shit! Who knew you had to worry about your armpits? I'm sorry, aren't wrinkles, saddleb Read more:Aging
South Beach Angel 2008-09-01 14:38:00 A friend of mine, a fellow writer at Miami Beach
411 whom I dearly admire, recently lost a pet rat. Yes, a pet rat who succumbed to an all too common rodent condition involving tumors. The forum thread reminded me of one of the most interesting experiences I ever had on South
Beach -- one that didn't involve sex or sand, but something far more important.One night, I took a yoga class at Synergy Read more:South Beach
Erotic Verse: Lodestar 2008-08-27 22:54:00 Our first kiss told an unwritten storyOne of hapless mariners lost at seaSharply, we keeled as windStruck hull, heart and bodyUntil finally, unfurled in the calm of our bedI blew quietly from my lipsLike sirens had done for centuriesOnly I had already seduced youAnd you knew, the story need not be writtenIn constellations named after godsFor no other star would guide usBut our loveYou won't see me
Unmarried and Single Americans Week 2008-09-22 13:28:00 Neither is love. If we are what we eat, no wonder so many people are unmarried. I mean, we're all full of artificial ingredients! Laser-etched cheese by artist Emily Brezin.Oy vay, as if failing investment banks and all kinds of tragic human drama wasn't enough, whaddaya know? The US Census Bureau has kindly brought us National Singles Week, which was ...... started by the Buckeye Singles Counc Read more:Americans
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