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!

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” –Woody Allen

The most positive thing you can do with your life is to show up consistently and authentically. It seems like stating the obvious, but in day-to-day life there are more people who check out of their relationships and quit on their commitments than you would think. Sometimes this is a conscious choice, but more often it is the small...

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin

I should actually feel happier than I do tonight. The intensity of preparation and the work is over, at least for the weekend. All kinds of accolades from acquaintances and friends far and near came through today....

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”-Vince Lombardi

Winning feels a bit like a hallucination. I am so accustomed to the doing and the trying that for so long has characterized the incremental progress of Good Clean Love that being recognized as a winner feels a bit foreign. I won the...

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” -Zig Ziglar

Success feels a bit like a hallucination. I am so accustomed to the doing and the trying that for so long has characterized the incremental progress of Good...

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.” -Vince Lombardi

Tomorrow is the big competition for the local Willamette Angel Conference, but in some ways after tonight’s VIP reception, I feel like I already won. First, how cool to be on the guest list of the VIP reception. Better still was...

Listen to the enlightening views on shamanic sexual healing by BABA DEZ NICHOLS, speaker and teacher on the sacred traditions of spiritual sexual healing and founder of the Sedona Temple and School of Temple Arts. Release the guilt, shame and fear about sexuality and discover the grace of tapping into the sexual power we all hold to manifest your deepest desires.

“Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body” -De Saint-Real

I am reminded over and over that health is greatest and most essential possession of all. Sadly it is often in the throes of illness that this reflection comes so clear. You never feel so well as the days after you recover from feeling so badly. There is nothing taken for granted about pain-free movement after a bout with a bad...

“Worry is the dark room in which negatives develop.” Church Billboard

We have been visited by our dreaded spring malady of poison oak again. We live in the midst of acres of forest and fields that is owned by the oak. We may pay the mortgage, but there is no question about who owns the space. All of my children react to the plant in differing symptoms and intensity. Over ten years I have...

“Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, ripe on a plate. And while you live, relentlessly she understands you.”~Phyllis McGinley

I have four remarkable children. Becoming a mother to each of them has taught me more about how love changes you from the inside out than anything else in my life. In the twenty plus years of celebrating mother’s day with my children, I have often struggled with...