I had graduated a year early from high school and was just a few months into college. I had a new, older boyfriend and a diaphragm. I used the spermicide, but I got pregnant anyway. I found out I was pregnant at a building that I only later realized was…

It can help you too! I take a pill called LDN every day to help me with chronic pain. Have you heard about a drug called Naltrexone that is having major success helping addicts get off opiods, at a high dosage of 50 mg per day? LOW DOSE Naltrexone is prescribed at a dosage of…

But Not In The Way You Think! Twenty months ago I ended my relationship with my partner of 23 years. Happily ended. I wanted and needed it to end. Sometimes I miss the security and comfort of that relationship, despite the clash, conflict and lack of connection. Why? Because we were family. …

Is Ukraine the Only War on the Planet? Like you, I am heartsick about the pain and suffering occurring in Ukraine this very moment. All because of one pathological narcissist’s crazy obsession with power. The rest of the world can’t stop it. It is sickening. Our focus is on the latest atrocities and Zelensky’s heroic leadership. We want…

Is it Love with No Place to Go? When my mom died 5 years ago exactly, at the age of 94, she gave me one last surprise gift. It was liberation from the agonizing, painful, suffering of grief I had experienced when other people died. My mom and I had shared the gift of time; time to say…

How to move from No Sex to Great Sex! It is so much fun to hear from women in their sixties and seventies that they are having the best sex of their lives! Fulfilling, satisfying, luscious sensual pleasure, whether solo or partnered is nothing to sneeze at. In the last week three vulva owners have told me just that…

I realized when I was 21 years old that I was a survivor of childhood domestic violence. I hadn’t had a name for it before I made my first full-length documentary film about battered women as a film student. That was when I realized my mom had been a battered…

It was 1988 and the category was Documentary Short. My film, made with Megan Williams, was called “Language Says It All”. It was about deaf children and how being deaf was really more about access to language than it was about not being able to hear. The film is on…

How we will reverse the Alzheimer’s epidemic! As per ScienceFocus.com: “In any human body there are around 30 trillion human cells, but our microbiome is an estimated 39 trillion microbial cells including bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on and in us. We have around 20–25,000 genes in each of our cells, but the human microbiome potentially…