A few years ago a world-wide media event served as an illustration of how our society does not want us to get along with each …
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Big Gamble
If you gamble, you could lose a lot more than money. Three teenage boys huddle over a cardboard box at the store counter. “It’s only …
Read More »Tips for Relationships
When a friend of mine asked me how on planet earth (this is no heaven) we can find and nurture healthy relationships, a list flashed …
Read More »The Hidden Path
Months go by, and I’m stumbling blindly, arms outstretched. There’s a path promised to me, but it somehow remains unclear. How frustrating it is to …
Read More »My Daughter
It was a two-for-one deal. The day I got married, I got a husband and a six-year-old daughter—instant wife and mother. It was rocky at …
Read More »Finding Safety
Even in the best divorces, kids live divided lives in which they struggle to understand their parents’ behaviors, negotiate tangled family systems, and develop values …
Read More »Deadly Marriage Habits
“It takes wisdom to have a good family [marriage], and it takes understanding to make it strong. It takes knowledge to fill a home with …
Read More »Holidays During COVID-19
This year of 2021 is slowly ebbing away. After enduring 2020—whew! What a time it has been! Once again, we ask what will our holidays …
Read More »Grandparenting
Recently I picked up an imaginative doll in a gift shop and read about Danna. She has a company, “Danna Does Dolls.” Each of her …
Read More »The Sin of Hurry
One morning, I got caught hurrying again. I was on my way to coach our college football team. As usual, I’d tried to cram too …
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