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!

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” -Henry Ford

We are not given many best friends in a life. Even if you don’t ascribe to the belief in reincarnation, there is something unique and extraordinary about how a best friend hears exactly what you mean when you speak. They laugh at all the right moments and can crack your heart open just by the tilt of their head in the middle...

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” -Ryunosuke Satoro

For me there is probably not a more intense interaction that I can have with humanity than when I become an air traveler. While I am intellectually conscious of the enormity of the world’s population, it is when I move through airports that I experience the vastness of humanity trying to move through space. It is in...

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.“ ~Robert Louis Stevenson

This is a very quick quest as night time is brief. I leave in the middle of the night to go see my oldest and dearest friend in the city where I spent the first decade of my adulthood. Leaving home is increasingly challenging for me as I have come to treasure the comforts of...

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.” –Ross Perot

This week’s announcement about the end of the 40-year marriage of Al and Tipper Gore caught me off guard. I am sure I wasn’t the only one surprised by them calling it quits. They were one political couple whose...

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” -T.S. Eliot

It is one month to the day of my still surprising upset victory at the Willamette Angel Conference. Every day seems a new beginning to my business, which is in the process of re-invention. The angel conference has cast a bright light around this love business...

Wendy and editor Zanne Miller explore how our loving relationships can be the most gentle and effective education we engage in to become the person we want to be. Rather than focusing on finding the right partner, commitment works best when we approach it as a method of personal growth. Commitment comes from developing the ability to remember that you really love someone, even if you aren’t...

“Life is just a bowl of cherries; Don’t make it serious; Life’s too mysterious. You work, you save, you worry so,

But you can’t take your dough when you go, go, go. So keep repeating it’s the berries; The strongest oak must fall.

The sweet things in life to you were just loaned, So how can you lose what you’ve never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries, So live and laugh at it all.”

Ethel...

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” Lewis B. Smedes

Some days it is hard to bear witness to the world we have made. The ongoing gush of petrol into ocean, the killing of peace activists on route to bring supplies,...

“The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Experiencing life through the body is the truth of the situation. We are of service to our bodies or they will make us serve them. Only one ongoing health condition can change the totality of your life. Even brief illnesses refocus our attention on what in our busy-ness is...