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Want to give your children a wonderful treat?  Leave them at home.
I’m well aware of the struggle to find time to go on a date with your spouse.  I’m also well aware of the struggle to find time with the whole family, and the guilt that goes along with that.  It’s tempting to forgo the [...]

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On Second Thought …

Although I don’t think I’ll be posting every weekday as I was before, I have decided to start writing on this blog regularly again. If I can figure out how to do feedburner or something nifty like that, you can sign up to be notified whenever I’ve updated.
Here are some topics I plan on [...]

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Updates

I just posted a list of my favorite dates at Weekend Kindness. Click here to check it out.
If you want to see my current article in Marriage Partnership magazine, click here. You can read it in its entirely online.
And if you have an overwhelming urge to plunk down actual money to read my writing, [...]

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I have this horrible paradox in my personality:  I love surprises and hate it when they’re blown.  But I also compulsively try to figure things out, even when I have next to no information to work with.
Many times over our almost sixteen years together (that counts dating), Pete has said seemingly benign things about gifts [...]

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Happy 15th Anniversary

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity.
The order varies for any given year.  ~Paul Sweeney
To Peter:
Well, my dear, it’s been fifteen years today.
We’ve had some hard years along the way, but I believe that this past year has been the hardest.  We have had so much [...]

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Saying Goodbye

She teetered out onto the wet rocks, groping behind her with one hand to grasp the hand of her son. In her other hand, she clutched a cardboard box tightly to her chest.
Those of us who’d stayed on the shore held our collective breath, not exhaling until she’d reached the outermost rock, the one [...]

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