Good Clean Reads

“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.”  -John Kenneth Galbraith

I have finally met the full weight of my fatigue and I am so happy to have a long weekend at a beach...

“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.” -Unknown

These days I feel swallowed up in the experience of grief and loss. Even as there is a part of me that recognizes the massive changes that are happening inside Good Clean Love are fulfilling my dreams, I can’t seem to explain or move through the heartbreak of losing control of a...

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” -Robert McCloskey

Again I am facing the painful awareness of the places where I continue to fall short in my capacity to relate. The ability to communicate at home, at work, and in life is a strong barometer and predictor of our success in the relationships that...

Listen in as Wendy explores the best sex guide on the market: The Guide to Getting it On with author Paul Joannides. In its sixth edition, filled with over 900 pages of practical skill based lessons and a balanced, healthy emotional approach to creating a satisfying and evolving sex life. Don’t miss one of the masters of sexual education talk about the core of sexual education and health. 

“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.” Mahatma Gandhi

The other day on a visit to our family doctor, I asked him to remove a couple of small warts that have popped up on my fingers. I don’t think anyone noticed them but me as they were very small. He obliged with a quick freezing treatment of liquid nitrogen...

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”  -Alan Lakein

The idea of business planning used to make me cringe. I knew it was the respectable thing to do, but I couldn’t get my mind to think that way. Raising four children had taught me over and over again that planning is what you do while life is happening and redirecting you. I tried a couple of...

“If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ” ~Toni Morrison

Each day I am closer to holding my first published book in my hands. This has been a long time in coming. For several years as I was learning the craft and my message, I only wrote one page per day. It has been over a year in compiling and editing the work. Giving life to this book...

“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” -Frances Willard

The Good Clean Love booth was buzzing today on the final day of the annual naturopathic convention. Amid the booths of supplement manufacturers, testing labs and herbalists, we were the only sexual health company on the floor. This was our third appearance and the physicians had...

“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”  -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Voodoo Donuts is one block from the Embassy Suites here in Portland. This is the first big cultural sensation in Oregon that is sweeping the nation. The woman in front of me on line (which generally winds around the block ) is on a cross country trip from Florida....