August 21, 2015 Friends and Peers
Whoever invented the saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” was either totally impervious to emotion or an outright idiot. The deepest emotional pain is being hurt by someone you love, or a…
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July 13, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Is beauty without or within? How long have we debated this question? It’s likely that we’ll never have a standard, universal answer. But I feel, as I believe most of us do, that true beauty is within. It comes from…
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April 7, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Emotional intimacy, to me, is a rather all-purpose term that is made up of smaller components. One must always remember that, in marriage, you’re dealing with another person’s thoughts and feelings every day and every night. Thoughts and feelings are…
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A young man sits thinking of how many failed romances he’s been through, and he says to the empty room, “I wish I’d waited.” Most of us, when we’ve reached a certain age, can relate to this. In that moment,…
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What is a marriage? Legal or common-law, a marriage is a lifelong commitment between two people who are willing to work to maintain the relationship and to sacrifice for each other. Can one find these attributes ONLY in a man-woman…
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March 25, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Today’s society seems so jaded when it comes to the concept of marriage. Some of this, though, may be the innocence of a fast-changing world. Perhaps we’ve forgotten a few things as we’ve moved into the world of mass communication…
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As the old adage says, there is a time and a place for everything. What is left unsaid, however (and is often overlooked), is that a thing’s time might be short or long and its place might be small or…
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