Good Clean Reads

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.  The mind is everything. What we think we become.”  -Buddha

There is no more powerful or challenging change we can make in our lives than looking at how we think. The human mind generates hundreds of thousands of thoughts every day and, for most people, the majority of them are negative. Negative thought patterns are so repetitive and...

Known as America’s sex therapist, Ian Kerner offers some of the sagest advice you will ever hear in this not to be missed conversation about how sexual pleasure heals our life. Ian’s is a clear voice of sexual sanity clarifies everything from the power of enhanced foreplay and oral sex to the mystery and complexity of opening to your sexual fantasies. If you are like millions of others who are...

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart

I have never enjoyed the introductory class to anything. You know the class when they spend half the time telling you the rules and rather than doing whatever you are there to learn, the teacher goes on at length about what will be learned? While I understand that the beginning of a class sets the tone for what follows, it also...

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. “ ~Richard P. Feynman

Not too long ago, my son got his first iPhone 4s and called me overjoyed. He exclaimed “my life is complete.” In my motherly way, I tried to explain that a phone doesn’t complete you, it is just a cool phone. Clearly I missed the point and I was in the process of...

“A final comfort that is small, but not cold:  The heart is the only broken instrument that works. “ ~T.E. Kalem

I wonder what is going through the mind of the man or woman as they fill out their Ashley Madison profile. What emotions dominate as one plans to cheat on one’s partner and betrays promises made? The spike in signups after holidays like Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day is probably a...

The most popular and first question that people ask about sex is “Am I normal?”  So begins this revelatory conversation with Debby Herbenick, PhD, one of the most respected and well known voices on human sexuality. As both a lead researcher and educator, her most recent book,  Great in Bedis a compendium of how to technique and unforgettable stories with co-author Grant Stoddard. Our conversation...

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues- it is the form of every virtue at the testing point.”  -C.S. Lewis

I can’t get the Stanford kicker, Jordan Williamson, out of my heart. Watching him struggle to maintain his composure with the game on the line, not once but twice and each time coming up short was for me the most heartbreaking moment of the game. He missed only two kicks in the whole...

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T. S. Eliot

I sometimes wonder if the reason I have for so long embraced the motto “You never fail until you quit” is because I am so unskilled at endings. I feel like the tire that is stuck spinning in a muddy rut when it is time to move on. I have the will, the engine...