Good Clean Reads

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes the storyline and problem solving that can and often does dominate life can consume it. We can’t see the light changing in the sky or hear the birds in the morning. We miss out on lighthearted exchanges happening around us because we are too consumed with the...

“Fantasy is all about potential,” writes award winning erotica author and editor Kristina Wright. Combining her education in humanities and her curiosity about human sexuality, she is the perfect guide in exploring written fantasies in the form of erotica. As author and editor of several anthologies including Fairy Tale Lust and Dream Lovers, her work invites us all into the freedom to explore the...

"As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the...

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”  -Oscar Wilde

I know my marriage is an anomaly. Happy marriages are rare. For as much as we all long for a relationship that we can grow old in, we don’t really believe in them. I think this might be because many people confuse the early “in love” experience of relating with the ongoing effort of creating a love...

Discover the power of sexually liberating yourself by listening to the courageous and bold voice of Pamela Madsen, author of  Shameless: How I Ditched the diet, Got Naked, Found true pleasure…and somehow got home in time to cook dinner. Listen to how you can tap into your deepest desires, get over your body image and fill yourself up with real pleasure of the body.  Pamela’s fresh and humorous
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“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.” -Sasha Azevedo

Lately I am learning how to not be a barometer for my children’s experience. I am unwinding the long-growing tentacles that have connected their experience to my own. Instead, I am looking for the teachable moments where I can be helpful, where my own experience can offer something useful. I am looking for the...

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ” -Martin Luther King, Jr

Rarely is the idea of creating a peaceful world described as an action verb- with all the same understanding and intensity that we employ in waging war. The idea of peace has this almost fairy tale feel, like it is something that would just descend on us or that...

"I like hugs and I like kisses, but what I really love is help with the dishes!" ~Author UnknownFor years the most significant and unresolved conflict that lived between my husband and I had to do with the division of labor in our home. In fact, this is one of the top mechanisms of dissatisfaction and ultimate destruction of many long-term partnerships. For most couples, establishing a balance to working...

“Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishments. Taken to extremes, of course, that’s true.  Most people however, find the meditation creates more time than it takes.”  -Peter McWilliams

If any single behavior has transformed my life over the last year of the positivity quest, it has been my increased devotion to meditation. I have tried many different techniques,...