Darling, Yes, it’s true. I was having a ‘man’ freak-out. It was a small thing. But not small to me. I had the great foolishness to develop a massive crush on a guy from a dating site, who I had never met, but who sent me a poem. Two poems, actually. (Do I emanate ‘send...

Darling, When you have a deep desire, what do you do? Are you thrilled to be filled with yearning? Do you enjoy that delicious feeling of wanting? Or do you focus, instead, on the pain of not having what you want? Are you pissed that you don’t have what you want? Do you curse the...

Darling, I am so deeply impatient with mediocrity. Irritated off the wall with settling, with compromise, with shrinking. I cannot even stand on a line without questioning it or inventing an alternative. Yesterday I was on a line at Briermere Farms, trying to pick up a going-away pie to bring to my friend Amanda. And...

Darling, 240 years ago, a gaggle of American women living in Boston started a revolution. Pissed off at the ever-increasing price of tea, they called a huddle with all their girlfriends, and got their men into action. The plan? Throw all the tea in town into the Boston Harbor. Who could blame them? A girl’s...

Darlings, So, next week, my daughter Maggie leaves for camp. It’s a big deal, leaving for camp.  She and I won’t be together for 7 weeks, except for one visiting day. And guess when her departure is? Yup. You guessed it. It is the morning of the Graduation of Mastery 2013. I have to be...

Darling, There are days, there are times, there are actions that we inhabit that ensure our mediocrity. You know this feeling. You drag yourself from bed, follow the deep grooves of the tracks you laid the day before, and the day before and the day before. Perhaps “rut” is a better word. You show up...

Darling, In exactly 16 days, a group of 65 women will board a plane and land in Paris. These women are part of my intimate inner circle called The Creation Course. Our purpose? For each of us to ignite and inspire and re-consecrate our Inner Courtesan, in the city that gave birth to her. We...

Darling, This Valentine’s Day… Sister Goddesses are rising. The Pleasure Revolution is joining forces with Eve Ensler’s global activist movement, V-Day, for its 15th anniversary and most ambitious event to date. We will join one billion people as part of the world’s largest dance break in support of an end to violence against women. Watch...

Darling, Welcome to this brand new year, and all the opportunity it holds for unparalleled beauty, intimacy, seduction, outrage, intrigue, love, provocation, passion, adventure and mischief in your life. If the concept of “New Year’s resolutions” inspires even the slightest trace of annoyance, impatience, frustration, crankiness, fear, anger, and/or overwhelm in you, I’ve got good news....

Sister, I love presents. Getting them is cool, but mostly I love giving them. I love that delicious feeling of anticipation when I have found the exact perfect thing for someone, remembered to tuck it in a drawer and pull it out just in time to blow their mind with how well they are known...