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!

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.” –Booker T. Washington

Today was one of those sweet days when things seemed to be coming together. Projects that have long been buried in piles of loose ends and weighty with the challenge of conflicting...

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” -Buddha

Today I launched my own radio show. This is a dream that I have had for several years, but only this year felt like I could actually approach it. The interesting thing was that once I decided to move ahead with it, once there was no more doubt in me, the reality of the show...

Dr. Romance meets the Loveologist: Exploring Love and Intimacy with Tina Tessina, Phd, couples therapist and author of 14 books on how and why relationships work or don’t. Truly nourishing relationship talk…

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” Unknown

Yesterday, as I struggled with my own discouragement my husband reminded me of the Carlos Castenada books that we used to read aloud. He told me that he had been remembering some advice that Don Juan gave about patience. “He waits patiently, knowing that...

“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 I had a lump of discouragement living in me. The more that I leaned into it, the more it seemed a visceral thing, that was rooted in my physical body and not...

“I believe, in some ways, agitating for social change is the most positive form of thinking there is. In order to do so, we must believe that one person can make a difference, that our opinion is worth voicing, and that the world can become better — if we are willing to make an effort to shape it that way.” -Barbara Ehrenriech

Every now and again I get suggestions about topics for the...

“Games lubricate the body and the mind.” Benjamin Franklin

I am the mother of four children, two girls and two boys. My sons have taught me much about the importance of the game over the years. Deprived of video game technology, they have always been players of one sport or another. The word “ball” was one of the first uttered in our home and the fascination with the game has filled countless...

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” ~Charles Dickens

I love to come home. I love to say the word home. Just the feel of it in my mouth relaxes me. It is where I rest most fully and where I connect most deeply. My home is in the midst of big trees where the air always smells sweet and you can...

‘Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives…but the love I mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth that prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.’ -Bradley Grieves

I always thought of love as the exchange, the giving and the receiving of energy in the myriad forms of life exchanges....