Reimaging how we define labor and love could be an antidote to men’s sense of disaffection lack of purpose. There is a passage in the Jewish prayer book that reads, “We have not come into being to hate or to destroy, but to praise, to labor and to love.” I’ll…

Businesses have a single priority: making money. Don’t confuse their so-called social agenda as anything other than a marketing opportunity. Our relationships with corporations are by definition transactional. We give them money, and in return they provide goods or services. It’s a particularly American trait for us to extend greater…

All you’ve learned about sex through your life makes it better as you become a seasoned, comfortable, assured adult. — Morning light had just begun filtering through the window blinds. We’d been touching and kissing each other. She got on top of me, both of us audibly gasping when we became connected. She started moving her hips. I put my hands on her thighs to slow her pace. She placed…

With our climate changing before our eyes, we collectively need to adapt — or suffer the consequences. From inside, it seemed the ice-coated trees glimmered and shined in silence. Only upon going outside was the assumed muted stillness and quietude of a cold winter morning betrayed. The snaps and cracks…

The reality of risks and dangers to pregnant people in America is a moral and ethical shame — and we’re making the problem worse. In the novel “Catch-22,” the protagonist Capt. Yossarian considers the U.S. Army his enemy. Why? Because it sends him into battle, where he could be killed…

I need to find someone out of the blue who I trust with my body — and it’s a daunting task. — There are two kinds of people who see and touch my naked body: lovers and doctors. So when I got an email from my doctor’s office saying they may no longer accept my health insurance, it felt like a break-up. “Oh, no,” I thought to myself. …

We don’t have to go looking for nature — it’s coming to us — In late afternoon, dark clouds slowly rolled in. They hovered, seemingly unmoving, blocking more and more sun as they thickened the sky. An evening thunderstorm was forecast. After dinner I lay on the couch, reading, when I heard the first grumblings of thunder. Lightning flashed. …

From singles to divorcees, collectively we are struggling to define what we need and want from long-term partners. — Lover, best friend, roommate, co-parent, sous chef, travel partner, chore sharer, driver (or driving companion), travel agent, accountant, general contractor, therapist, tax preparer, life coach, gym buddy, someone to go to the movies with…and anything else you can think of. Do we really expect the same person to know how…

What once was pure joy and pleasure is now fraught with worry and consequence. Yet for women, that’s always been the case. — During the height of pandemic isolation, the year between the arrival of Covid-19 and getting vaccinated, I wondered, as I spent day after day and night after night alone, without seeing anyone, without touching anyone, what first-time post-pandemic sex would be like. How it would feel to be in the…