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!

“With time and sincerity, you will discover a way to work and write that does not harm you spiritually, that does not tempt you to vanity, that is the deepest expression of your spirituality. You will find a voice that is not your voice only, but the voice of Reality itself…. If you can be empty enough, that voice can speak through you. If you can be humble enough, that voice can inhabit you...

I bought a gas grill today. I have wanted one for at least three summers, with each passing year, the charcoal process seemed to take longer and get easier to avoid. On Mother’s Day I bartered away a Mother’s Day brunch for the grill. Then it started to rain and one thing lead to another, the grill never transitioned from the space in my imagination to take a spot on the back deck.

It was a...

“There is a good reason they call these ceremonies ‘commencement exercises’. Graduation is not the end, it’s the beginning.” -Orrin Hatch

I attended my son’s high school graduation tonight and listened as one of his classmates shared a quote from Winston Churchill: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” The young man recounted his own experience...

“Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding”. – Marcus Aurelius

One of the most profound wonders of raising children is the seemingly effortless capacity of change that comes within the territory of childhood. Before your eyes and not infrequently over night, my children will wake up changed. Sometimes it...

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts…” –William Shakespeare

The distance between our public persona and our private selves defines our lives and relationships in ways that everyone experiences, but cannot always name. The truth of this was written large at the middle school talent...

“Your boundaries are the measure of your friendship with yourself.”

An old friend once told me that your boundaries are the truest measure of how you love yourself. I thought I understood the meaning at the time. Raising four children should have bestowed on me a mastery of setting limits and protecting my personal space over the last two decades. It hasn’t. I realized that the places where...

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” –Arnold H. Glasgow

There are still moments when something inside me refuses to just go with it. Air travel provokes some deep seated impatience in me. I am spending eight hours connecting and reconnecting to go a distance that should take two and half flight hours. Boarding, de-boarding and sitting...

“Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity” -Henry Hartman

I am getting ready for a very exciting opportunity tomorrow. I have a meeting with a large chain store buyer to inspire him about the virtues and potential of Good Clean Love products in his stores. I have been envisioning this meeting for years, taking the steps and preparing all the way, so that I can go into the...

“It’s so easy to think of the days gone by,

It’s a hard thing to think of the days to come,

But the grace to accept every moment as a gift

Is a gift that is given to some.

(Refrain) What can you do with your days, but work and hope

That your dreams bind your work to your play

What can you do

Every moment of your life, but

Love til you love it away.

There are sorrows enough for the whole...