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Marriage Advice for a Young, Newlywed Couple

If Only I Knew Then What I Know Now… It’s hard to believe that 13 years have passed since we said “I do.”  It seems like yesterday that we were newlyweds, trying to merge households and lives. The reality, however, is that much has changed since that sweet day. We have three beautiful children and [...]

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Never Let the Sun Set on Your Anger

You May Not Get Another Chance to Say “I’m Sorry” There’s nothing worse than seeing a grown man cry. I had the misfortune of sharing an acquaintance’s tears recently when his wife, a friend from church, died unexpectedly. She hadn’t been sick and was only 42. At his wife’s wake, he wondered aloud why God [...]

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Keeping Up With the Joneses Will Lead You Straight to the Poorhouse

Just Don’t Call Me Scrooge As a kid, I had a life of relative comfort. Both of my parents were educators, we lived in the burbs, and I had everything I needed and most of what I wanted. Yet, I was convinced we were poor. I guess I picked up this misguided perception from my [...]

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The Grass Isn’t Always as Green as It Seems

Green Grass Takes Investment My first job out of college was at a small newspaper in Virginia, where the star reporter dipped snuff at his desk, and the town’s first Super Wal-Mart was big news. I hated it there and was convinced if I could just get on at a larger paper in a less-hick [...]

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To Love, Honor, and Root for the Cowboys

He Married Me Because of My Sports Knowledge I am a sports junkie. Well, at least I was pre-kids when I had hours to devote to watching games. And watch games I did: basketball, baseball and tennis were my favorites. It didn’t really matter who was playing. If a game was on, I was watching [...]

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Things Married People Do: Play Word Games

Winning isn’t everything, except when you always lose In college, hubby and I were total word nerds. A fave Friday night outing entailed a coffee shop and writing together. One person would start the story, then pass it to the next person to pick up the action. Sadly we both largely abandoned our wordsmithing days after [...]

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He Invented the Internet, But He Couldn’t Save His Marriage

Good Days Don’t Automatically Last Forever I’ll never forget that kiss. After 30 years of marriage and four kids, Al Gore dipped his wife Tipper at the 2000 Democratic Convention and planted one on her that was worthy of a Meg Ryan movie. Fred and I were relative newlyweds then and I remember hoping that [...]

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Am I Responsible When Friends Divorce?

My Spider-Sense Wasn’t Tingling I ran into a church acquaintance at a kid’s birthday party. We hadn’t seen each other in months. She explained why. “I got a divorce.” My stomach did a somersault. I searched my memory for the last time I’d seen Cece. It was a Sunday morning months ago. I saw her [...]

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Home is Where is the Party Is

  Somehow I Married Oscar the Grouch’s Handsome Cousin Fred may not be green or live in a trash can (although his desk has been known to resemble one) but like that lovable Sesame Street anti-hero my husband is a curmudgeon. I suppose that’s a little strong. He doesn’t actually hate people, unless they’re visitors [...]

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No Mudbugs on Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day & Crawfish Don’t Mix When you live in the same city as your mother-in-law, there are some challenges. For me, Mother’s Day is one of them. Don’t get me wrong. I have a great MIL. She loves my family and bends over backwards to help us. However, her Mother’s Day gift got my [...]

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