It isn’t easy and there are lots of options, none of which can be guaranteed. Meeting the ‘right’ person is, most generally, a function of what we call ‘fate,’ or ‘happenstance,’ or ‘serendipity.’ But there are at least three varieties…
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September 6, 2014 Skin and Body
As a boy in the local barber shop, the process always ended with the barber doing a little something that made me feel more like a man and less like the 12-year-old boy I was. He got some hot white…
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April 30, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
Let me begin this summary piece on one of the more important things that can happen in the life of a child by answering the question posed in the sub-title directly. The answer is that neither solution is, generally speaking,…
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September 14, 2013 Crisis Support
When nothing you can say will really help, be still. The unsmiling, obviously haggard and inwardly exhausted police officer or paramedic faces the spouse of the deceased and says, “I’m sorry for your loss.” We have all heard it thousands…
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