Addicted to Advice
Knowing that hundreds of millions read advice columns daily, with additional how-to improve yourself videos and podcasts, I began to feel a little less guilty in my obsession. I’ve indulged in other forms of advisement over the decades: Talk and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness Meditation, Landmark Forum, Gottman Couple’s Counseling, Neurolinguistic Visualization, and even Hypnotism—the […]
Sex and Sexuality – An Homage to Dr. Ruth
“An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.” “What do you do if a woman is frigid?” asked the man in the auditorium. “No such thing,” Dr. Ruth Westheimer said in her distinctive German accent. “We do not use that word. We say ‘responsive’ to sex,” she added, rolling the ‘r’ in a lengthy sibilation. […]
DoppleMadgester – My Life as Madonna
Recently, as I stood admiring the plethora of differently sized and shaped phalluses throughout human history displayed on the walls of the Penis room at the Barcelona Erotic Museum, I could see a couple eyeing a video positioned on the wall then back to me. Curious, I glanced up to see a half-clothed Madonna in […]
Our Psychedelic Honeymoon – A Valentine’s Day Special
Why Psychedelics? I, and my newly minted husband Rod, recently embarked upon a Psychedelic Honeymoon Retreat in Alicante, Spain. Full confession, we had engaged in the year prior to our wedding in several therapy-assisted drug experiments: MDMA (love drug), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), and the mother of them all—Ayahuasca (from the Amazon jungle). What was missing […]
