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 is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” ~Rossiter Worthington Raymond

I stood at the grave site of Lilly’s father today. I had only met him once when we looked at the life stories of eleven-year-olds filling the gymnasium of the middle school where our daughters are good friends. We marveled at how the children...

The question of whether intimacy and love-making should be spontaneous or planned is one that gets between many couples. There are two issues in question here and it is important to tease them apart if you are going to make sense of either.

“Passion is the quickest to develop and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.” — Robert Sternberg

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“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom…for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.” -William Blake

Today I took delivery of 4000 lbs of personal lubricant. It was the largest single delivery ever made to my business and the biggest bet I have ever made on my potential success. Betting on myself is getting easier and easier since I have started the...

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

The relationship lessons in our life don’t change much over time. Even as I grow and mature, the places that break down in our relationships only seem to become more familiar to me. The...

Don’t miss this edition of Lunch with the Loveologist, as I discover the dynamic stillness that is at the center of every relationship with Sandra Wheeler, LMT, healer and teacher. Don’t miss this enlightening discussion about how we heal the spirit through the body, reclaiming our connection to ourselves, our relationships and to the source of love itself.

“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.” -Arthur Gordon

My contractor, Robert showed up to build the shelves we had planned out yesterday. He...

“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.” -Susan Sontag

The word hormone comes from the Greek word ( ὁρμή ) which means “impetus”. The chemistry that we often walk around taking for granted is actually the impetus for most, if not all, of our daily functioning. Let me elaborate- our hormones control our growth and development, our metabolism,...

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness.” 
– Peter Ustinov

A lot of people struggle with the idea of resurrection. The literal religious telling of a man overcoming death, of his coming back amongst the living for 40 days to teach the most esoteric and divine lessons of his life is hard to grasp for many. It is the tale that divides the believers and non-believers most passionately. In fact,...

“Jealousy… is a mental cancer.” –B.C. Forbes

Jealousy is a sneaky emotion that catches me off guard. I usually don’t see it coming and often, I must reflect quickly to find where my feelings of warmth and love turn bitter with envy. I believe that joy and pleasure shared doubles it, and usually feel gratified by the successes of my friends. When it comes over me I have learned to look for the...