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How a Hostage Negotiator Can Help Your Marriage
“While you might be curious how FBI negotiators get some of the world’s toughest bad guys to give up their hostages, you could be excused...
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Game Plan
One of the reasons I enjoy being a writer is it affords the opportunity to step into a variety of roles and speak from different...
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Getting Stuff Done
It’s been so long here in Southwest Michigan since we’ve seen the bright yellow ball that suspends in the sky, I almost forgot what the...
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What our phones are doing to us
I started attending yoga classes recently for the simple fact that I sit at a computer a lot, and at the end of the day, my body feels...
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Mumbling Minions
I reached for the lever to drain the water out of the bathtub and heard my husband chuckling through the bathroom door. I was curious...
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The Gucci Glasses
I was feeling optimistic, confident, and excited to spend the day in Chicago with my family. Traffic slowed as we neared the city which...
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Skipping the Rules
The college admissions scandal dominated the news and media outlets this past week. Wealthy families paid a college placement specialist...
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Stay the course
You would never know by looking out my window that we are supposed to “spring forward” this weekend. The recent sound of the snowplow...
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How to have your BEST Valentines Day
My love for music causes me to act in ways some consider inappropriate....and by “some” I mean my teenage daughter. I can’t help that I...
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The Words We Speak
Our youngest child, Madi, may be a spitting image of her dad and possess the wittiness of her mom but one thing she has that didn’t come...