October 3, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
In a perfect world everyone would find their perfect mate the first time around and live happily ever after. However, we are far from a perfect world and perfection is often a relative and subjective term. What constitutes close to…
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October 2, 2015 Friends and Peers
If we are teachable, and able to internalize the valuable lessons being offered to us through life, the answer to “What is Friendship?” will continually evolve through the years. Friendship can never be summed up in a simple sentence, or…
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September 24, 2015 Friends and Peers
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it’s a friend with chocolate.” -Charles Dickens While navigating the friendship road, especially as teens, everything has a price. “I’ll like you and be your friend as long as you act the…
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September 23, 2015 Friends and Peers
My first impulse is to say, “The best way to test if a friendship is real is have a major crisis in your life and see who sticks around.” But I hold myself back from reducing it to such simple…
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September 22, 2015 Friends and Peers
If two-way communication does not exist between people, what they share probably doesn’t qualify as true friendship, (in the normal sense of the word, anyway). It may feel like friendship to one; the one who gets their needs met because…
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September 19, 2015 Friends and Peers
Getting past any internal issue takes time, patience and a lot of self honesty. Issues regarding friendship have been the most challenging for me to face head on. A simple event which occurred when I was an adolescent paved the…
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September 18, 2015 Friends and Peers
An event that happened early in my life caused me to develop serious friendship issues, which is another story. However I did have one very special friend who stands out in my mind as my most treasured. Our friendship began…
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The media has done a pretty good job of exposing the lines that will reveal a somewhat shallow nature, like, haven’t I seen you somewhere before? Or, I think I’m in love. So what unique words can you compile to…
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September 9, 2015 Friends and Peers
If you want to know how to do something, ask an expert. And what does it take to become an expert at something? – Lots and lots of failure. So I’m the gal to ask about making friendships. As I…
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The art of communication is best understood through trial and error over time. If we’re lucky, eventually we understand how our words, both written and spoken, have the power to inspire or destroy. After making one of the worst communication…
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Women often have great insight in recognizing an inability to commit in others, but we aren’t always quick to identify it in ourselves. What is it that keeps us from commitment? What fears lay beneath the surface of our consciousness…
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Recognizing when a man is not into you is more difficulty than recognizing when he is, especially if you are into him. Wishful thinking is a powerful thing and can make us read signals that are, for the most part,…
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My husband, who has a great sense of humor, says the reason men are afraid of commitment is because since they don’t have to go through the whole birthing process, they’re basically wimps. Unlike a woman who has few choices…
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May 14, 2015 Friends and Peers
When we become truly authentic and learn to love who we are, people will automatically be drawn to us. Trying to get people to like us is not a viable goal. A nobler goal is liking ourselves, despite what others…
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Bumble & bumble thickening spray is the best product of its kind I’ve ever found for my hair type. I have fine and fairly thin hair, and until recently have kept it about shoulder length, thinking short hair would only…
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Have you ever noticed that certain personalities usually share common facial features? That’s been one of the most intriguing phenomena I’ve witnessed in life. Could it be that having delicate facial features may help give you a sweet personality, or…
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Speed dating; what a great idea! A fun way to get as much information about a potential partner in as little time as possible. Why wasn’t this around when I was young and single? It’s true that life already seems…
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Some people like the feel of the wind on their face, others like the gentle silence of snow, many are sun worshipers; but me, I LOVE the rain. Especially when it’s accompanied by lightening and thunder. The electricity in the…
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February 10, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
To love, honor and cherish till death do us part. That’s a long time for someone in an unhappy marriage – and not long enough for people who have learned how to keep loves flame a burning. Those of us…
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Until I had daughters of my own I never realized how shy I had been as a teenager. Knowing how to carry on an interesting conversation with the opposite sex was never something I mastered while in high school. Do…
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Nothing can assuage the collective disappointment felt by so many gay couples and their allies around the nation, as once again the meaning of equality has escaped the mental arsenal of the ill-informed I’m talking about the ballot initiative, Question…
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As children, we all go through a phase where it’s difficult to share our toys. We are even less likely to share with someone we don’t know. Our little developing ego says “this is mine and someone else may ruin…
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May 13, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Over time the list of reasons for couples divorcing has expanded to include an array of things; some rational, some not-so-much. Although the more common reasons given (usually lumped under the heading ‘Irreconcilable Differences) are: 1. Infidelity 2. Money problems…
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March 23, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
What is it that makes us forget why we fell in love in the first place? Why do those feelings that in the beginning of a relationship had us walking on air, so frequently diminish over time. Based on statistics…
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For those in the GLBT “Gay Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgender” community, finding friends who are allies can be tricky. There are several categories in which GLBT allies fall: 1. People who have GLBT friends and like to hang out with them…
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August 16, 2013 Friends and Peers
Those who can – do. Those who can’t – teach. – H.L. Mencken I used to think this was a derogatory quote, but I’ve changed my mind. Many great people have had amazing talent but were unable to fulfill their…
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Awe, the glory of that spark – that titillating feeling that ignites our nerves from head to toe (focusing on a couple of key areas, of course.) As women, we know when we are sexually attracted to a man, but…
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