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Are You Addicted To TV? by: Katherine Westphal It is 2AM and you are blankly staring at a rerun of “Columbo”. You meant to go to bed hours ago, but the time has somehow managed to slip through your fingers. Your hand reaches for the remote. It’s Saturday afternoon and your best friend since kindergarten [...]
New Hope for Old Farmers: Americans Long For Life ‘Down on the Farm’ by: LeAnn R. Ralph Imagine my surprise when I read an article in the April 2005 edition of Reader’s Digest informing me that membership in Future Farmers of America (FFA) has hit a 22-year record high. Since 1994, the number of farmers’ [...]
Relationship Deal-breakers by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. In the 37 years that I have been counseling couples, I have discovered that there are only a few issues that are true relationship deal-breakers. Many of the issues that tear relationships apart are not actual deal-breakers. Rather, most divorces and breakups are the result of one or both [...]
Couple Relationship by: Brigette Meier Statistics about divorce rates in the United States vary widely from one third up to fifty percent. Still, even considering the lower estimations, that would still be every third couple getting divorced. Surely one reason is the more liberated attitude towards marriage and divorce in our modern society. But there [...]
Compatibility by: Brigette Meier Harsh words, hurting comments, tears and flying household objects – for sure, no one ever wanted that to be the everyday routine when deciding to live together with the beloved person. Yet, why is this such a common picture, portrayed even in many Hollywood dramas? Two people meet, they fall in [...]
Save Money on a Holiday by: Brigette Meier Going on a family vacation can be considerably more expensive than going with your partner only. Instead of buying two airline tickets and renting a double room in a hotel, you need maybe four or five tickets and at least two hotel rooms. Fortunately, there are a [...]
Do I Have to Part With My Pet If I Have Pet Allergies? by: Larry Chamberlain Aaaaaaachoo! Sneezing? Wheezing? Nose runny, eyes itchy? You may be suffering from the common cold. But if the condition has been hanging on for two weeks, or more, you may be suffering from an allergy as opposed to a [...]
Family Mental Illness — Coping by: Pauline Fitzgerald Experience and Coping Strategies of Living with Mental Illness “The mental illness of a family member is an unexpected event that disrupts the usual sense of continuity an rhythm in the lifecycle with a profound impact on young family members”. (Marsh & Dickens, 1997, p.51) Mental illness [...]
Dog Worms — Don’t Let Them Get Started by: Charles Burke There may be no warning before dog worms strike. It was about two AM, when beneath our bed the new puppy we’d brought home from the pound just a month earlier began screaming. Not yipping or whining — this was the kind of agonized [...]
Weaning Puppies Is Only Natural by: Charles Burke Weaning puppies is a perfectly natural process. Mamma dogs have been doing it successfully for ages, so how hard can it be, right? But humans, not being dogs, can sometimes forget the natural part, and get confused about it. Fact is, weaning puppies is an easy, logical [...]