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!

“Life: a cycle. A series of events, meetings, and departures. Friends discovered, others lost, Precious time, wastes away. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken memories of a happy yesteryear.” -Daniela Gallo

Today I am reliving the past in the present and releasing it into the future. My doula and nanny from...

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” -Don Miguel Ruiz

The global tour of the Banff film festival is in Eugene this weekend. The short videos selected among hundreds of entries from extreme sports enthusiasts are mind boggling. From the free form skiing off of tops of mountains, to...

“To love and win is the best thing, to lose and love, the next best.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

I came home the winner tonight from the local entrepreneurs speed pitch competition. Eleven companies had three minutes to tell their stories and then the room of business investors and entrepreneurs voted. It’s no easy task to share the power and vision behind your life’s work in three minutes....

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” –Benjamin Franklin

These days, its all about the timed pitch. My latest endeavor to secure investment and a brighter future for Good Clean Love has brought me into a few investment circles which require a timed and polished pitch. I have never had a hard time talking in my life until my recent attempt at a timed pitch, last week. The good...

Celebrate Earth Day by exploring eco-Sexuality this week with internationally known love writer and blogger, Tina Marie Bernard. She is a top-rated writer of sex, love and relationships for Examiner.com. Her musings are found in a variety of online and print media including Greenprophet.com, More.com, and SheWrites.com, among others. Her studied and lively perspective on everything from tantra,...

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” William James

Here I am over 100 days into this positivity quest and I find myself still reaching for the book that started it all, Barbara Fredrickson’s book Positivity. Whenever the weight of the world ignites my negativity bias, her book is the manual that helps me to re-think my...

“The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.” ~D.H. Lawrence

I am not a studied astrologer, but I am a strong...

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.” -St. Francis of Assisi

I attended the Oregon Symphony’s annual Youth Artist’s Debut, where nine of the most talented child prodigies in Oregon display their...

“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.” ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Today was my son’s 14^thbirthday. I told him everything I could remember about his first birthday. It is remarkable how some of life’s memories are so vivid, they are as fresh and detailed as though they...