All things love, sex, and spirituality with a little fiction on the side.

Melissa Portan

LMSW, M.Ed.

Licensed sexologist practicing in NYC.

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  • Twin Souls: Reason to Live

    These things will usually remain hidden to the twins: when they will meet, how many lives it will be until they meet again, and how they will meet. I don’t know if this is because these are things that are unpredictable with too many variables leading to too many possibilities that you’d drive yourself to…

  • Go Back Home

    It is never a good sign when the first thing you feel after a person leaves is relief and peace. The push and pull of the ocean’s waves, the rhythmic sound of collapsing waves is a soothing lullaby. But stay there long enough, at the edge of land and sea, and things begin to get…

  • Blog Updates: Establishing Foundations

    Well, the website is back on WordPress. I started this blog on WordPress in 2011, switching to Wix a few years back. But it really does feel at home here at WordPress. I’m glad to be back. (If any of my original subscribers are still around, drop a comment!) The last 4-6 years have been…

  • Cotton Candy

    Sometimes the sky is like cotton candy; soft hues of pink, white, and blue. Even during a storm the sky can seem like the sweetest thing, like a better place than the hard and unrelenting ground of Earth. Here beneath the endless celestial dome everything is crushing, the puffs of clouds are constant taunts of…

  • Keep Within

    I don’t know how to say what I feel. I think I should say nothing. I think I should cover the glass jar with my hand and keep within the fluttering butterfly.

  • Soul’s Desire

    Each time I deny My soul’s desire Fissures run and deepen, cracking the surface of my heart. Inevitably, Lines will become depths, Hollow chambers will cease ‘Till all crumbles to ashen smoke.

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