Billy Manas

In my case, it wasn’t that I was not willing to join the dating world again, it was simply that, at my age, I’m finding it increasingly difficult.

Perhaps I am in a period of my life where I need to learn how to be comfortable in my own skin, without having a beautiful woman to defer to as a gauge of my worth or definition of my…

What is it, really, that our dreams are trying to tell us?

As near as I can explain it, there are two separate processes that often get muddled together: the law of attraction and setting an intention.

I wanted, more than anything else in the world, to lean in and kiss her—and I couldn’t. I was paralyzed. She looked right back at me, and after a few seconds she said, “Wow. She really screwed you up, didn’t…

I’ve spoken to many people in my day-to-day traveling that seem to surmise that it is a natural and intuitive feeling that comes over us when we know we are ready to love fully and completely again. I know, however…

I know exactly what you’re thinking, too. Man up! Don’t punish your kids for something that has nothing to do with them! Come on, they are three and five years old.

For months, I have been waking up at 6 a.m. to research literary agents and send out query letters in an attempt to find representation for a book proposal that I spent the winter working on. For months,

This is my story and I am sure that even if yours is not quite as tragic or horrifying, you can remember a time in your life when you “got in your own way” or were “your own worst enemy.”

We try to fill that hollow place within us with food or drugs or alcohol or consumerism—just about anything we can get our hands on—but it doesn’t take too long to realize these external entities do not make us feel…

It seems as though we really need to decide what kind of compromise we’re willing to accept. The lover who doesn’t give us butterflies, but is there for us lovingly and consistently---or the “tricky type” we long for who will…

The small minority of people who are able to stay in relationships for years on end are the ones who realize—or most likely just understand on an intuitive level—that they are shacked up with a fallible human. They are going…