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I was talking with a friend yesterday and asked "What would you like to read about in my Friday Message?" She said "Why do I continue to do what I shouldn't, and why don't I do what I should?" Yipes! I was hoping for something easy!! Let me say right off that I don't like the "should" word, yet oh my - how I relate!! So let's look at these two questions: 1. "Why do I continue to...

From the bedroom window I can see the lighthouse, but also a tree with a pair of shoes dangling on their strings on one of the branches. They have been there for years now. In summer, they are a bit out of vision, but when all the leaves have fallen, they appear again. If I look outside, thinking about nothing much but sentences to write, questions arise. How long can a pair of shoes...

The Crazy Roller Coaster of Conflict How to break out of circle arguments to find peaceful connection By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach “It’s your fault!” “No it’s yours!” “Oh yea, well you’re a bigger one!” And on, and on the conflict goes. It’s what I call a circle argument because it goes around and...

Three of Casey's motions were ruled on yesterday by Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. and those decisions will not help her defense team one bit. At the June 1 hearing, Casey Anthony's attorneys argued to keep her jail visitation logs secret because they didn't want the State to know who and what experts were consulting with her at the county facility. It sounded like a reasonable request, but the...

With all due respect to Ken Burns, I think his days as America's favorite history-teller are numbered. Like many, I was fascinated by his series on the Civil War, baseball and World War II. But, if I'm totally honest, I must confess that sometimes it felt like a chore to get through some of the episodes. So, when my husband recommended that we check out the recent HBO series about John Adams, I...