Knitting is as useful as a reminder that humbleness is as important as skill. Last fall I decided to go on a meditation retreat. I have some anxiety, and I have knit to calm my nerves, and took my knitting with me. This seemed like a simple idea, I would have something to go do […]
My former housemate in San Francisco has a Cairn Terrier, similar to Toto in The Wizard of Oz. Her name is Bella Rose — Rosie for short. She’s a great dog and I still occasionally care for her when her owner goes on vacation. We joke that I’m the absent step-dad. One of Rosie’s favorite […]
In a previous article, I touched on how our culture tells us that fashion is a female thing and while men can still be interested in it, it’s almost always coming from a female perspective (i.e. women’s fashions). There’s really a lot more to be said on this subject, especially when it comes to how […]
Every year I tell myself the same thing: I’m not going to get caught up in the hectic schedule of visiting every single person in my extended family, or buying presents for a long list of people and all the other things that come with the Christmas holiday season. And every single year the exact […]
My day job consists of me writing for an instructional porn company for men. Yeah, I know. Of the numerous emails we get from men asking how to be the man that all women want and all men envy, we get a few from the women who have discovered their men buying instructional sex videos. […]
In Buddhism there is this concept of Dharma which is the law of nature and of suffering. I was at a meditation retreat this past fall about confidence and compassion when one of the teachers of the group made a joke that we weren’t just talking about clear dharma that weekend we were also talking […]