So after a spiritually-crippling time (life isn’t always perfect, pity), I recharged my energy and fell in love with life again this week. Morning walks on a hiking trail allowed me to enjoy th…

After racing through Barcelona, we sailed past the Cote Vermeille and stopped briefly in the still-very-military Toulon. I had planned to have a cassoulet at one of the waterfront cafes, but since it…

Why is religious morality so anti-sex? Only the sacrament of marriage (slightly) legitimizes sex, a thing valid only for reproduction. Love is pure, good and spiritual, but sex is degrading, shamefu….

We left our elegant and sophisticated retreat on the Baltimore Inner Harbor, looking for some less-refined fun. Heading for the Gold Club, we thought we’d enjoy a few cigars, some champagne, an…

Did I need another interest? No, but I have one…ugh. She’s a 285-horsepower, 3-bladed Bonanza, and I hurtled my way through the sky in Virginia this week. Perhaps my Gulfstream friends woul….

In my dream, I was completely vulnerable and the man took charge of the whole sexual encounter. I was alone at a picnic in a clearing in a forest. I had eaten soe of the […]

So it has been two years since I last sailed on my own…I’ve been too busy, sadly. This week, it was time to get back to the peace of the open ocean. And nothing welcomes […]

Welcome to Midwestern hospitality. I’m accustomed to being greeted upon landing, but in Iowa, as we bounced down onto the tarmac, our concierge brought homemade bread pudding! I don’t th…

The valuable differences between men and women seem to be those that render us attracted to one another…indeed, men like “feminine” women and women like “masculine” men. Fundamental….

Curry Village (or “Camp Curry”) was founded by people in the education world–notoriously underpaid as it those in that world are (I should know, having been there for too many years!), I wasn….

I spent most of this week living at the Sacred Mountain in “Own Village,” or Taos (as it’s known to most of us). The days comprised an almost-study of iving in harmony with the environm….

Three days left. You should be here in this violent city. And though you have forbidden me to touch myself in your absence, my fingers cannot help but lie like agitated birds near the dark […]

The Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum (or 17 museums and a zoo, to be more accurate). I was told they have over 140,000,000 objects; whatever the exact number may be, this place mak….

Cabo San Lucas is an indefinite place, neither land nor sea, a thin shifting strip between worlds. We left footprints quickly erased by wind and tide, built a castle gone by morning, daydreamed an im…

There is a pervasive interest in sex; as any marketer knows, mention or show sex, and you’ll grab people’s attention. Whether fascinated or furious, nobody is indifferent to sex–so it fo…. .

I have grown to expect the highest level of hospitality and service from luxury hotels, so it’s not often I’m impressed. However, in Boston there is a hotel that offers the perfect lodgin….