Good Clean Reads

Lubrication is one of the simplest and most effective ways to make intimacy more enjoyable. And even though our bodies naturally produce lubrication, it isn’t always enough. Hormonal changes, stress, medication, or simply wanting a little more glide are all good reasons to reach for lube!

“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.” -Kahlil Gibran

The days have been glorious, full of light and color bursting from the trees. Early autumn: lingering sunny afternoons with a sweet crisp smell in the air has always been one of my favorite times of year. For many years, I would spend hours collecting leaves of all shapes and sizes with my kids. We would bring home...

“Sexuality is the best and most interesting way for me to understand the world and the people around me…” is the response that Cory Silverberg gives for his tremendous work in the field of sexual education. As the About.com:sexuality guide, Cory provides some of the most compassionate, articulate and accurate information available on the web for all things sexual. In our conversation, he explains...

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ” ~Thomas Paine

On the days when I am feeling low, one of my daughters will come in and start reading entries from one of my favorite social media sites, GivesMeHope.com. Three young optimists created this alternate view of life on earth in response to the growing popularity of the negativity-inspired FML.com. With more than 1 million...

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

I grew up in a family that defined dysfunctional before anyone ever used the word. Unresolved pain in my parents’ lives served as the foundation of their relationship and my childhood was steeped in unspoken terrifying rage or screaming fits that filled every space. I became an early talker, as...

“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone – but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.”  -Bette Davis

My son and his girlfriend ended their relationship today. It was not for lack of love, but rather life circumstances that brought it to this end. My son, now a college freshman, and his girlfriend, still in the midst of high school, are traveling in...

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leaving the BlogWorld conference in Las Vegas and reflecting on what I learned, or maybe better put, what I continue to learn about life could be summed up in the feeling of gratitude. I didn’t walk away with any big aha moments from attending, but I did come to appreciate again, and in a new...

All I want is to stand in a field

and to smell green,

to taste air,

to feel the earth want me,

Without all this concrete

hating me.

~Phillip Pulfrey

Probably one of the very best parts of my day is how close I live to nature. At home, nestled into an old growth forest, I experience silence regularly. I can hear birds conversing, I can hear the sound of wind through trees. I often forget how far...

“This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”  -Bertrand Russell

My son fell from a roof last week and just like that all of life was different. This is often how life catches us off guard; with accidents, health emergencies or just bad weather consequences. Suddenly all that we take for granted, that we hold as the fabric of...