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PERFORMANCE PRESSURE SELF INFLICTED

April 29, 2024 by

Performance pressure starts with doubt. Will you be good enough? Have you trained to win? Can you do it? These are the same questions asked when people decide to get married.

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MARRIED LIFE GOING LONG, LONGER, KEEP GOING

May 10, 2023 by

Married life seems long when you think how long you’ve been married. Then someone else says they’ve been married longer and calls you newly weds. Newly weds after thirty-seven years? That’s it? I keep it more basic: Every day has a first date feel. You remember first dates?

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MODERN MARRIED LIFE FOR BEGINNERS

October 8, 2022 by

Modern married life for boomers like your’s truly was never going to happen. I remember a song from my parent’s record collection before they all melted: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. Take it Jimmy.

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DREAM STREET: 82ND AVENUE PORTLAND OREGON

September 4, 2022 by

Dream street? 82nd Avenue? Somebody wake me up? No, it’s not a dream, but a street of dreams. And those dreams came to life.

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MARRYING KIND? HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE

August 1, 2021 by

Being the marrying kind takes practice. Eventually things work themselves out. From the relationship vault: A few weeks into a sizzling new romance, Lovey and I were in my Lovejoy apartment late one night when the building buzzer started and wouldn’t stop. I got up and pushed the front door button. After all, the place […]

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HUSBANDING 101? MILLENNIAL SAYS NOT SO FAST

March 29, 2017 by

    Married guys who don’t cheat on their wives know all about Husbanding 101. Their game, our game, relates to men and women who have too much to say about the wife. Can anyone hear a man say “the wife” and not think he’s ‘one of those?’ In this example ‘the wife’ is the […]

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