Good Clean Reads

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. “  -Bertrand Russell

Some doubts carries wisdom and insight. Having the capacity to reflect on our life choices and experience with intellectual honesty is a gift that brings you more deeply in touch with your feelings and more honestly able to assess where you are in...

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn reverence for life until we know how to understand sex.”  -Henry Ellis

Sex scandals are us. The news is replete with what seems an endless account of seemingly good people whose sexuality has literally transformed them into a criminal. The stories of childhood sexual abuse are deeply troubling and extend into the millions when you consider the...

“When it’s over, I want to say:  All my life,  I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”   -Mary Oliver

It’s easy to get so lost in the momentum of holiday activities and the seemingly endless to-do lists that we forget what the holidays are for. There is always more to do than there is time for, and probably never quite so acutely as during the...

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been searching for a business partner for over a year. I interviewed dozens of overqualified people nationwide and engaged in hundreds of conversations about the path that led...

Ever wish you had the Hindsight to avoid the same relationship pitfalls time after time,  listen as Maryanne Comaroto breaks down the essential skills required for creating the loving relationships that we all yearn for. A talented and articulate radio host and author, Maryanne is a relationship activist offering both a clear understanding of where relationships break down and a full set of active...

by Anastasia Strgar

I think Britney Spears said it best when she said “I’m not a girl, not yet a woman.” At 23, I’m a bit loth to call myself either a girl or a woman, because I don’t quite feel like either. Thus, as I’m training in the archaic fashions of ladylike behavior, I deign to consider myself a lady. However, all this talk about appropriate titles of my current role in human development,...

“Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.” -Harlan Cleveland

There are weeks when life is steeped in only problems that seem to get more complex and embedded the longer I look at them. In every direction I look, all I can see is what isn’t working. From mysterious health concerns in the family to new product launches that are mysteriously leaking, I wade through the...

“All healing is first a healing of the heart.” -Carl Townsend

I remember the first time I heard the maxim that “Bad things happen fast, and good things happen over time.” It was a recognition that hadn’t occurred to me until I was faced with sweeping and traumatic shifts in health and relationships. Illness, accidents, natural disasters and even broken hearts happen seemingly instantaneously. In...

“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible.  The Life Force experimenting with forms…you for one, me for another.  The Universe has shouted itself alive.  We are one of the shouts.”  -Ray Bradbury

I have been struck by the power of the life force of late. It is a force that animates everything we do, but we hardly recognize it as such, except...