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10 myths about divorce

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...

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Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks

Happy 8th Anniversary to my husband Robert! Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every...

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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. She’s...

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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 be...

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…Now there’s a beautiful river in the valley ahead There neath the oaks bough soon we will be wed Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees Ill wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me –From Springsteen’s If I Should Fall Behind Happy...

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Easter Sunday 2010

Here are a few of the Easter Sunday 2010 pictures I snapped earlier today. Juliette said this looked like a chef costume. Hahahaha! Pretty happy for 815 in the morning. Daddy The chocolate bunny Bridgy is holding is white chocolate. I wonder why. When you’re four, you only wear a white suit...

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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...

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Guest Post: Gen-X and the Blended Family

by Shirley Cress Dudley, MA LPCShirley@BlendedFamilyAdvice.comTwitter @BlendedFamily4Uphoto via stitcherGeneration 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...

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