by Maria Merloni | Aug 1, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Last winter, a good friend’s grandmother died. I knew she was devastated. This woman had been more like her “mother” than her actual mother, and she was the Matriarch of the family. (For the sake of privacy, I will call my friend “Susan”...
by Maria Merloni | Jan 2, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Today is January 1, 2019. I’ve never been a “party girl” on New Year’s Eve (wellll, maybe once or twice…), and have generally not considered New Year’s a big deal. This year, however, I feel different. I’ve been struggling over the past year with...
by Maria Merloni | Sep 18, 2016 | Miscellaneous, S.E.X.
I’m being a little facetious here, but not really. I mean, yes, adding a dimension of kink into my life several years ago as a regular thing has most definitely improved the quality of my life. I’ve decided it is an essential element for me to be truly...
by Maria Merloni | Mar 28, 2016 | Miscellaneous
I can think back on certain experiences in my life, the ones that seemed so hard to go through at the time, and see the gifts that were contained inside them. Surely, though, as I was meeting those challenges, I couldn’t see any gifts at all. In fact,...
by Maria Merloni | Jan 27, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Sometimes, clients will ask me what I think they “should be” working on. Last week, during the tail end of Mercury Retrograde, I had enough snafus to prove to myself that my standard answer to that question is very good advice: if there is something that...
by Maria Merloni | Sep 15, 2015 | Miscellaneous
Through a number of recent conversations with friends, I have come to realize that there are likely a lot fewer people out there who “like” me (on Facebook, social media) than those who like me. And these are real, actual friends I am talking about, not...
