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Fight Or Forgive?
Not long after moving to another area of the country together, my husband and I came to a parting of the ways and agreed to divorce. Like so many people in this situation, we had to decide whether to fight or forgive. We had recently put a large down payment on a new living room…
Read MoreStarting Life Over
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at. Jesse Owens When I grew up in Nigeria it was the custom for young parents who lived away from their tribe to send their children to the…
Read MoreSurviving My Worst Embarrassment
I was horrified! Two dozen people watched as I was publicly ridiculed for an awful mistake in the middle of a courtroom trial. It was my worst embarrassment. As a young, recently hired lawyer in a high-powered law firm, I had been tapped by my boss to be his “second” in this complicated case, a…
Read MoreBattling a Hoogwar at Home
[Dr. Stelle’s history of early Mukulian civilization, The Sun Rises, describes an attack by a hoogwar, the ancestor of our modern jaguar, on two young men of that time. For today’s Lemurians “battling a hoogwar” has come to mean grappling with one of the difficult challenges in our lives.] One Sunday morning after the housework…
Read MoreThings Our Life Misses
I just got off the phone with the Dean of Instruction, and I was fuming. The job I wanted – a job I had been doing unofficially for three years – had just been given to the other finalist. The Dean said it had been a difficult decision as the two of us had very similar…
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