There are no words to describe this place. All I want to do is gaze at the beauty of the architecture and the natural landscape and breathe. If there was any place that screams light and darkness, beauty and ugliness, the power of human creativity and destruction, this is it. I am awed by the [...]

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As many of you know I am traveling in Europe for the next couple of weeks.  I meant to write a blog yesterday before I left, but clearly didn’t get to it.  Since I will be traveling, I will focus my blogs on my experiences and observations from the road.  I will probably not blog [...]

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As the disagreement around whether the Mosque should be built near Ground-Zero seems to be rising to a screeching hysteria, with each side absolutely believing it possesses the truth, it doesn’t seem like we are going to resolve this issue anytime soon. In the meantime, the animosity between the two sides is growing deeper, further [...]

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Last Wednesday, which happened to be Bastille Day, David and I went to a Cinemonde Soiree in Manhattan.  I had been invited to these before, but have declined going due to Wednesday schedule conflicts.  This time I cleared my schedule and decided to take David as part of his birthday gift.  From the description: gourmet [...]

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I was going to write a follow-up blog On Love, but since many people were intrigued by my family’s Friday night dinner, I decided to share more about it with you.  It is longer than my usual blogs, but I think it is valuable since it conveys the sense of sacredness and family.  I hope [...]

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I am finding myself at a place where I often ask my clients not to get to: unbalanced with regard to taking care of my body, mind, heart and soul. It is not a surprise given the various projects I am currently working on. In the past when I found myself in this predicament I [...]

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I was going to follow up on yesterday’s blog on neurons and David reminded me that I need to get back to blogging on the process of the book writing not actually writing the book – that is Jeff’s job. Thank you David! I find I am spending most of my “free” time thinking of [...]

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Yesterday, I discussed my fear of bees and how I overcame it when I realized that I was exposing my son, Leor, to my fear.  I developed this fear because I saw my sister’s terrified reaction to getting stung.   The curious thing is that I developed that fear vicariously by observing  my sister while she, [...]

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I am taking a little detour today from blogging about the parenting book to discuss my observations of the Jesse James Interview last night on Nightline.  Those of you who know me may be wondering what on earth am I doing discussing pop gossip?  It is so not my cup of tea.  And you’d be [...]

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With sex all around us, oozing out of our televisions, theaters, magazines, fashion, on the streets, one would think we are the most sexually informed, open and comfortable nation on the planet. We manage to connect sex to just about anything we sell, buy, eat, smell, see, or touch. It is such a part of our daily lives, we have become like fish in water, unaware of its constant presence… except of course when a tit falls out in the middle of Super Bowl. It’s no wonder, then, that when a new study, “Why Humans Have Sex,” by Cindy M. Meston and David H. Buss, revealed its finding that there are 237 reasons why people have sex, every media outlet jumped to cover it.

Typically, however, the news and related conversations came and went, leaving us no better educated than we were before. This topic deserves greater attention. I would like to press the pause button long enough to have us stop and think about our sexual lives and ask the following question:

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