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!

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.” – Ivy Baker Priest

The lesson that has played over and over throughout the day is that the only attitude that allows life’s next step begins with being willing to start again. It is the beginner’s mind that sees possibility everywhere. Once you claim to know, you are committed to how you believe it should...

“But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning.” -Unknown

Throughout human history, the hearth of a home has been the place of gathering. So central to the meaning of home, the hearth has become a synonym for the warmth and comfort that home offers. Whether in the preparation of daily nourishment, the capacity of welcome to...

“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All of my children play something competitively. They try to win at a number of challenging sports or in musical auditions. We have witnessed all varieties of choking on the court, both tennis and basketball courts, scratching on jumps, falling off horses, literally....

“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Twenty-six years ago today was a Saturday. I know this because I was married at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Well, at least there was a young woman of 22 who was married that day. I still look vaguely like her, or at...

The Anniversary Edition: Listen this week to Wendy and her oldest friend Sarah talk about Making Love Sustainable in her 26- year old- marriage. Share in the sweet lessons of spilled milk and the many memories of what it takes to keep saying yes to love. Our closest friends are our most gentle and generous teachers when it comes to learning to love. Listen to these two old friends share their...

“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” ~Rosalind Russell

I love the day that I get my hair done. I have long been a fan of hair color; ever since mine started turning grey while my youngest daughter was still in preschool. I still am not sure how old I will be when I give up this trick on nature and bear witness to how grey I am. Everyone assures me it is still too soon. Besides...

“Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.” -Unknown

Our relationships are truly the fabric of our lives. Living in a big family with so many people in the process of individuating can make for a compelling laboratory. It is rarely dull, although not frequently full of drama. The one rule that I have imposed relentlessly on my...

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break. “ ~William Shakespeare

Shakespeare himself would be overcome by the enormity of the tragedy that Polandfaces today. Within hours, the brightest minds and most committed public servants, along with the ranks of the Polish courageous past leaders perished at once in a burst of flame over the very...

“All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.” -Buddha

Science is proving what great spiritual teachers have been saying for millennia. We do not exist individually, there is no action that we can take or perform that is not connected to all of us. Our lives exist within an...