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!

“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” -John M. Richardson, Jr.

Our local movie store is closing. Actually it is a whole chain of neighborhood stores that is closing with Hollywood’s demise. They had already shuttered 3000 stores and now with their bankruptcy, the most profitable...

“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living” -Joseph Campbell

The highs and lows have been extreme lately. More and more my daily effort and my passion merge into something that an onlooker might call my bliss. Some days I am overcome with the sheer luck...

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

These opposites have more in common than we might expect. Learning how to win or lose with grace is another way to define how to live and grow with maturity. Richard Bach summed it up when he said: “That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed...

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” -Carl Gustav Jung

Today positivity means balance. The Buddhist teachings on equanimity are the texts I study, and today I realize that I need to double my efforts. The height of...

“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” -Woody Allen

On the drive up to the State Tennis tournament and with graduation just weeks away, we were listing the names of the kids we knew in common to find out where they will head off next year. As we were talking, I learned about a boy who I had known since my...

Listen to the director’s side of feminist pornography with Candida Royalle, founder of Femme Productions and pioneer of feminist erotica produced by and for women and couples. In addition to hearing about the best of her 18 films which she wrote, directed and produced, we also talk about her inspiration and experience that was behind her book How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do: Sex Advice From a...

“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around… Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.“ ~Larry Dossey

Does mental health enhance sexual wellness? Does sexual wellness enhance mental health? Yes and yes. Creating your...

“And the Angel said, ‘I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself, but by love.'” -Leo Tolstoy

I have always believed in angels and I remember years ago, before I knew much of anything about investment conferences or business plans, that I would find an angel to help me make this business real. As the years wore on and the realities of business ventures and investment...

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” -Carl W. Buechner

I have been organizing a 6^thgrade basketball team for my youngest daughter this spring. I have seen my fair share of the antics and intensity that accompanies youth sports over many years as my boys have competed at high levels in everything from soccer to tennis to basketball. Today was a...