Emma Watson—the Harry Potter girl, as she referred to herself—did a masterful job recently of launching a new campaign for gender equality at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The HeForShe campaign asks men to make a commitment to “take action against all forms of violence and discrimination faced by women and girls.” That is…
“Love is an earthquake meant to relocate the center of our universe,” writes Mike Mason in his brilliant book, The Mystery of Marriage. I wish I had known that this was to be expected. During our first decade of marriage, the tectonic plates shifted and pitched me off balance so frequently that I assumed I…
Have you ever experienced someone telling you how awful marriage is? When I was engaged someone told me, “Either your first year will be terrible and then it will get better or your first year will be great and then your second year will be terrible.” Gee, thanks for the encouragement! My first year of…
It’s a tough job to sort out the difference between a personal want and a real need. The marketing media says you “need” to have everything they advertise, and you “need” it now. From makeup to perfume to new gadgets or a new car, commercials, billboards, and advertisements of all kinds shout to us that…
“Why I hate TV…” This was a topic I was assigned to write about in my pre-marital counseling. Apparently, I had a problem with TV. Oddly enough, I didn’t actually give much thought to TV until I met my fiance. My schedule was too saturated to make time for shows. My fiance, on the other…
