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Understanding Must Precede Advice
By Kyle Benson Mike finds his wife’s “explosion” of anger “unbearable.” When she gets angry, he tries to neutralize or fix her feelings. He often tries to problem solve before understanding why Stacey...
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5 Ways We Screw Up Unconditional Love
Thomas Fiffer wants you to get unconditional love right, so you don’t break your heart trying. ___ Unconditional love is presented as the purest form of love, the gold standard, the summit of bliss...
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If You are Going to Put Your Foot in Your Mouth
Embed from Getty Images was recently in the Canadian Territory of the Yukon. Dawson City to be exact. Not to be mistaken for Dawson Creek. That is a 24 drive, and about 1,934 miles south east of...
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Tolerance is a Better Solution for the Wedding Cake Case
Embed from Getty Images Rejection is a common, often innocuous, experience that occurs in all stages of life. But rejection becomes discriminatory, and socially corrosive, when based on immutable human...
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Sanctuary
Embed from Getty Images — Sanctuary: Any place of refuge; asylum. When I got to college, I did what many college students do for money and got a job at a restaurant. I was a bartender in an...
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There Ain’t No Bad Guys (Darn It!)
You know how you get a song stuck in your head and it just replays over and over on a loop? It’s quite possible I just did that to you with my title. Sorry about that. But Dave Mason’s “We Just...
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Is it Time to Raise Your Voice?
— After the 2016 presidential election, with the country in shock and deeply divided, I remember reading articles with topics like, “Now what? What can I do?” These articles recommended volunteerism,...
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Defining My Masculinity and 5 Ways I’ve Evolved as a Man
Embed from Getty Images — Masculine is defined as “having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men, especially strength and aggressiveness.” ◊♦◊ Every holiday was the same, the only...
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The Man Box: The Link Between Emotional Suppression and Male Violence
Mark Greene explores the Man Box, and how it leads to policing of behavior that dares to fall outside the boundaries of traditional masculinity. — Humankind is in the throes of a savage epidemic. It...
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The Importance of Books
I’m a firm believer in the power of books. I’ve been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. I lovingly claim the term “book-nerd.” I owe books in many more ways than I can recount. And because...
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Why Jefferson’s Vision of American Islam Matters Today
Denise A. Spellberg, University of Texas at Austin After last year’s deliberate break with tradition, President Donald Trump has resumed the iftar dinner – the sundown meal during the Islamic fasting...
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Trusting Kindness
— While in my 30’s, I was a server at an upscale restaurant in Seattle, a steakhouse that catered, mostly, to Seattle’s theatergoers, business people, and lawyers. For a time, nearly all the other...
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When Nothing Really Happened: A Teachable Moment for America
As an elementary school teacher, one of my most unavoidable daily activities is resolving conflicts. Children—like their parents—are exceptionally skilled at getting each other upset. Rare is the week...
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All Families Speak a Different Language
When I was a little girl, Uncle Hockey was a legend in my family. Now, to be clear, he wasn’t actually my Uncle. Also, his name wasn’t “Hockey”, or anything like that. And, I never really met him....
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Us Against Them
— My wife and I attended a “Jackie and Jill” about 4 years ago, and I had a whole blog post written in my head about how great that is. Every high school now seems to have support groups or LGBT clubs...
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No Man Is an Island
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND from anicca pictures on Vimeo. AWARDS 2019 – Vimeo Staff Pick (online premiere worldwide) 2018 – Amanda, The Norwegian National Film Award – “Best Short Film” 2018 – Dokufest,...
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My Dad Is Gay
— I recently received an email from the child of a parent who came out when this child was fourteen years old. In preparation for writing an essay about the experience, the child asked me a series of...
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Paragraph 140 of the Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV: Strategic...
— Strategic objective D.3. Eliminate trafficking in women and assist victims of violence due to prostitution and trafficking Actions to be taken 140. Education to foster a culture of peace that upholds...
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Everyone’s a Skeptic—About Other Religions
— Religion is an extremely touchy topic. Church members often become angry if anyone questions their supernatural dogmas. (Bertrand Russell said this is because they subconsciously sense that their...
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Finding Simplicity in Complexity
I’m bored. I’m bored with the conversation that nobody is having. I’m bored with the news, or the fake news, or whatever the hell it is that is being spewed 24 hours a day by allegedly reputable...
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