Walking away from an often stormy marriage with three small children I vowed not to date for a very long time. My plan was to work and provide for my children until they became adults. I intended on keeping their…
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September 23, 2015 Friends and Peers
“You will always be my best friend, because you know too much about me”. My best friend gave me a coffee mug with that funny little phrase on it years ago. It speaks of the essence of our “Friendship”, and…
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For years I felt if you looked up cheating in the dictionary a picture of my ex-husband should accompany the definition. Cheating; “the act of lying, deception, fraud, trickery of imposition”. “To create an unfair advantage usually in one’s own…
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August 31, 2015 Friends and Peers
I have a plaque that hangs in my kitchen about friendship. It reads “Friendship is the wine of life”. It was a gift from a friend more than twenty years ago. Given long before I decorated my kitchen with a…
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Aging parents, “never-never land” children and how to handle “The Squeeze” at 50. Let me insert a change on words here. It is not just a squeeze it is a suck all the breath out of your body, mind blowing…
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When I was in high school many years ago my Home Economics class started a volunteer program at a state run hospital about forty minutes from our small town. You did not receive extra credit for volunteering; you did receive…
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The definition of man in the dictionary is an adult male; a person with qualities regarded as manly such as strength and courage. A description short and to the point, yet lacking many of the other attributes associated with the…
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April 12, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Your marriage is over, you know it and so does your spouse. You would pack up and leave today if their were no children. Struggling with the ongoing tug of war between the guilt you feel and the desire to…
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April 7, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
How ironic that my husband and I just had this conversation over a glass of wine last night. Not that we are comparing ourselves to the rest of the population in any way. The subject came up while talking about…
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My sister and I made a pact when we were in our twenties that we would refrain from joining the “gray group”. We even went so far as to promise each other who ever died first the other would make…
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January 18, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Marriage is a commitment two people make to each other. Exchanging vows, we promise to love and cherish “till death do us part”. A ceremony of beautiful words whispered at the alter. God, friends and family as our witnesses. So…
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January 1, 2015 Relationships and Family - Other
I believe, oh yes I believe in love at first sight. Feeling a blush cover your cheeks while your heart starts to pound in your chest. The shaky hands and sweaty palms. The loss of words when your eyes meet…
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November 23, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
There is a little sing-song I attach to the emotional stages of divorce. “First you’re angry, then you’re sad, you feel like you’ve been used and you get mad, but eventually you get glad”. These are emotional stages of divorce….
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November 8, 2014 Crisis Support
Strange how I was sitting here rating articles when this topic popped up on my screen just days after I found out my favorite brother-in-law was diagnosed with lung cancer, inoperable stage 3 lung cancer. My brother-in-law is one of…
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November 8, 2014 Crisis Support
I am living proof of life after domestic violence. I survived nearly two years of being battered and verbally abused by a man I foolishly believed loved me. My story is not so different from others who have endured the…
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November 4, 2014 Skin and Body
Are some people predestined to become a skin cancer statistic? Is there something about heredity or our genetic makeup that makes some people more or less likely to succumb to that dreaded disease? As a child I spend countless hours…
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March 25, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
In today’s society one can choose the right way to divorce much like deciding on the purchase of a new vehicle. A mere fact of life in the world in which we live. We longer must file charges of mental…
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