Will the Real Lesbian Please Stand Up?

What is it about growing older that frees women to explore fantasies they may never have had envisioned in their younger, heterosexual days? Last year, a good friend told me that for the first time in her life she was sleeping with a woman. As long as I kept her identity a secret, she said I could share her story, and then she smiled as she talked about how much touch and affection she enjoyed from her female lover, also a newbie. Together, they were...

Green Love: 4 Elements of Relationship

We traditionally think of the brain as the command center of our lives, sending messages to the rest of our bodies and controlling our thoughts, behaviors, emotions and desires. Except, it turns out that when it comes to the heart, it’s the other way around. Your heart sends more messages to the brain, then your brain does to your heart. This surprised me, turned my view of what I’d learn about basic brain biology upside and made me think:...