Cultivating Financial Patience

I’m not sure how many people will actually need to try cultivating this particular habit, but it’s probably one of the hardest-won and most useful that I’ve ever acquired, so I’ll share it.

Guest Post by Jenna: “To Kiss”

Recently I was a featured guest at the Erotic Literary Salon in Philadelphia. One of the other readers, Jenna, read this piece, and it struck me how perfectly it expresses the feelings I try to remind my clients and audiences of when I’m teaching my “Making Out” workshops.

Life Cannot Be Put Off

While catching up with my middle daughter Kat the other day, she mentioned that her sisters often pitied her. “They can’t believe I’m still in school, that I’ve got so many more years to go.”
“They talked about that in orientation,” she went on. “They warned us that our friends and family…

The Implacable Inexorably Malignant Shoulds

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The Key to Lasting Love

Pay attention, because this one will be over fast.

This is the one lesson that I wish I’d learned earlier, that I wish I knew better, that I never could have really articulated until I heard it from the mouth of someone younger and wiser than me.

To Thine Own Self Be Woo

Apologies to those who have some sort of phobia towards puns, but this is a measure of love that I don’t think we consider too often.

It came to mind when a reader sent me a strange little note, in which she thanked me for some of my work, calling it “…way…

The Mie of Love

We’re heading into a couple of the most fun days of the year for a lot of people, and for the rest of us it’s entertaining to watch you all having fun, so I’ll keep this short so you can get back to your shopping/cooking/cleaning/dreaming of sugar plums.

Stacking the Deck Towards Awesome

A while back a very dear friend of mine woke up in a grumpy mood. She and I tend to communicate through text during the day, and so I did my best to cheer her up. Sometimes I’d do the “guy” thing and try to fix the day, suggesting reasons she should be happy, telling…

“I” Contact

According to Dr. David Givens, author of Love Signals, increased eye contact between couples can improve and increase the biochemical bonds between couples. I mentioned this a bit back in the post on Eye Gazing, but that was directed towards couples. I’d like to propose this week you try and make it a…

Don’t Wanna. Did It Anyway.

Today I hit my first “I don’t wanna” moment in regards to this blog.

It’s not that I have any lack of material — no, far from it, the idea sheet for posts is bigger than my arm, metaphorically speaking. It’s more a matter of where I’m at mentally today…

Word Up

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