A revised version of this blog post about divorce rates in Oklahoma and myths about divorce aired on KOSU Radio January 15, 2013. I have nothing here to sell you, Just some things that I will tell you. Some things I know will chill you to the bone… —From George Jones and The Grand Tour I […]
Generation X Children of Divorce: In Case You Thought I Forgot
in case you thought i forgot, originally uploaded by JKönig. I discovered this photo several months ago on Flickr along with the poignant, extended caption. It’s been made available by JKönig via the Creative Commons License. It feels like a rare find; an actual photograph reflecting the collective experience of many Generation X children of divorce. […]
A Word in Due Season
About 11 of 12 years ago, my friend Louisa told me something no one had ever told me before and no one has told me since. She would not remember it and I would not forget it. I told her this yesterday within the context of her leaving her position as Editor-in-Chief of Oklahoma Today. […]
The Way Things Should Be
We’ll have it good We’ll have the life we knew we would My word is good — From the Plain White Ts and Hey There Delilah The Way Things Should Be One day, several years ago when Juliette was in preschool, she had a particularly bad day. I asked her how she would like things to […]
Chasing Normal
You can take many paths to get to the same place. –An old Apache saying With divorce, the Etch-a-Sketch is turned upside and family life, as children know it, disappears. The aluminum powder picture that re-emerges often casts dads in minor roles. Sometimes, he’s left off the credits altogether. It’s a tragedy Gen-Xers have been […]
Guest Post: Gen-X and the Blended Family
by Shirley Cress Dudley, MA LPCShirley@BlendedFamilyAdvice.comTwitter @BlendedFamily4U photo via stitcher Generation X is the generation that has seen the most divorces and remarriages in their lifetime. Twenty years ago, it was rare for a family to be divorced. These families were in the minority and if your family was divorced, you didn’t talk much about […]
Blended Families Bonded Families
In the 1978 mini-series The Young Pioneers, the character Molly, played by Linda Purl, hears a peculiar buzzing. She looks out across a field of corn in Dakota Territory and sees a wall of locust headed toward her. She and her children escape to shelter, but the swarm leaves the farm in utter ruin. The […]