Today’s quiz:

My little girl grew up to be:

A) A stay-at-home mom;
B) A doctor; or
C) A rugby player.

Sigh. C is the correct answer. But don’t worry. I’m not alone. There are other rugby moms out there. In fact, did you know there are three Memphis-area high schools — White Station, Cordova and Brighton — with rugby programs? At the college level, women at the University of Memphis are trying to organize for next fall to join clubs at Arkansas State University, Mississippi State University, Vanderbilt and Middle Tennessee State University.

My daughter, who’s grown (and…um…should know better) plays for the Memphis Women’s Rugby Football Club (see action photo above). The women, all accomplished and bright, enjoy knocking the crap out of their opponents on Saturdays at Toby Park, then donning skirts on Monday morning to show off their bruises at work.

As the ladies like to say to prospective recruits, “Rugby is like a sorority, only you get to hit people.”

So, I ask you, should mamas let their babies grow up to be ruggers?

(Posted by Guest Diva Carolyn McAtee Cerbin)

Happy Monday! Are you prepared for a disaster?

No, not spilling coffee on your suit, a real disaster. A Mississippi River-flowing-backward-all-the-buildings-crumble disaster.

Well, are you?

If you read Nashville bureau chief Rick Locker’s recent story about the Tennessee National Guard, you know troop strength is good, missing equipment is being replenished and commanders have learned lessons from Katrina.

But the last paragraph of the story should give you pause. According to Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, our state adjutant general, disaster response takes time. “Obviously, in any kind of crisis … that first 24 to 48 hours, it’s going to be chaos.”

So, again I ask: Are you prepared?

Do you have an emergency kit to get you through those first days before the troops — like those pictured above — arrive? Have you discussed a disaster plan with your family? How will you deal with “chaos?”

(Posted by Guest Diva Carolyn McAtee Cerbin)

What do you really know about slavery?

You studied it in school, of course.

You might have an ancestor who was a slave - or a slave owner.

You might have read Bart Sullivan’s story about U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., introducing a bill asking the federal government to apologize for slavery. (Wow, did that trigger some angry letters to the editor!)

I’ll bet, however, that if you go to see the film “Amazing Grace,” you’ll be surprised at how little you know.
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Let’s cut to the chase.

Who had sex this weekend?

Who was just too freakin’ tired from running the kids around?

Who wanted it bad, but it just didn’t happen?

Who sooooo didn’t want it to happen, but put up with it anyway?

According to the Kinsey Institute, that renowned repository of all research sexual, 3 percent of us married women haven’t had sex in the past year; 12 percent of us have had it a few times in the past year; 47 percent of us have had hot sex a few times a month, and 32 percent went for it two or three times a week. You other 7 percent have been getting it on 4 or more times a week. (Oh, there was a time, she says with a sigh…)

You would think the numbers for married men would be the same, and I guess if you factor in the margin of error, they are: 1 percent of married men said they haven’t had sex in the past year; 13 percent reported a few times in the past year; 43 percent have had sex a few times in the past month, while 36 percent have heated up the sheets two to three times a week. That other 7 percent has been busy, busy, busy. In a good way.

You single women — yes, you who complain about not having a man — might have a point. About 32 percent of non-married women told Kinsey researchers they haven’t had sex in the past year. But that means 68 percent of you have. It’s time to dish the details!

So what’s going on in Memphis? Do we beat the national figures? Or are we living in the hot Delta, not having hot sex? And what about you suburban women? Are you having enough sex to put the city girls to shame?

I’ll get the confession ball rolling: Sex this weekend? Nope, too busy being The Guest Diva.

(Posted by Guest Diva Carolyn McAtee Cerbin)