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E-ffairs: A Potent New Cocktail

You sit down at your computer and log on to Facebook. In the top right corner, you notice a “friend request.” You click on it anticipating a co-worker or college roommate, hoping not to find your high school biology partner. When the new page opens, your heart skips a beat. It is your ex. You glance over your shoulder to see if your spouse noticed, but you are all alone. Now what do you do?

Years ago, we learned the Internet is a dangerous place for our professional lives. Remember the email about your fire-breathing boss you intended to send to a friend and accidentally sent to your boss instead? It turns out the Internet is dangerous for our relationships as well. more...

Hope Is In How We Decide To Live Life

Hope is a Labrador retriever. Despair is a slithering mollusk. With hope you take on life as it presents itself. With despair you hide behind a false face and life wanders by unnoticed.

Hope is Amanda's lemonade stand next door last June. A folding chair, a plywood platform, a pitcher and a sign. Amanda watched the street all afternoon, her brown eyes wide. It is a quiet street with little traffic. The pitcher never emptied. But she had a few customers and a reservoir of determination. more...

The Enemy Is Anger

Ruth talks about her anger, but she won't say anger. It's frustration, she tells me, with the million demands at work and home, with no one helping out. Her kids sit in front of TV. Her husband walks past the mountain of laundry. Each night she must get food on the table, clean up, get homework done and bathe the children. How come no one else sees the unmade beds or the stacks of things on the staircase waiting to go up? more...