October 23, 2015 Crisis Support
DART, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit, has decided to make the world a better place by engaging in a campaign to end domestic violence. It’s a noble cause, one would think, even if a bit lofty for a company that…
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Joe Bob searches his home futilely for a place to store a box of baseball cards he’s collected since childhood. Everywhere he looks is already packed to the edges with something else. The bedroom closets, all four of them, are…
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Why don’t men express their feelings as easily as women? The short, accurate answer to this is that they don’t need to. This perfunctory answer cannot be fully understood unless we first acknowledge that there are fundamental differences in the…
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I was asked recently what I wanted from a woman when it comes to a relationship. I almost immediately gave a typical knee-jerk answer that would have more closely resembled a profile on a dating site than the truth. Sure,…
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February 2, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
It is in one way ironic that we put troubled families into the hands of lawyers; the one profession certain to turn any manageable conflict into a war zone. One the other hand, a wise man once said if you…
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December 2, 2014 Communication
I was twelve years old in 1969, but as my experience on the party scene was limited, I still remember it with some clarity. We were in Viet-Nam, landed on the moon, America rocked at Woodstock, and the universities were…
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October 23, 2014 Communication
There is an incalculable amount of advice in this world instructing women on how to get what they want from men. Scarcely is there and issue of COSMO or a host of other women’s magazines that doesn’t have and article…
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