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Any parent of a teenager(s) knows the rest of this title…Our Kids. If there is karma in the world, I’m getting payback for the jerk I was (I’d use a stronger word if this were not a PG-rated column) to my parents for so many years. And, for all the incredible angst and sleepless nights I likely caused them. They only had me so I’m getting double since I have two boys, now 17 and 20. Payback is a b****.
Nowadays, there are projects given our elementary-age and older children that seem a bit big and over-whelming – to mom and dad, that is. Seriously, some of these projects are difficult and in many communities it seems the quality of these completed works are way beyond the capability of the kid that “did it.” Clearly, dad and mom are helping.
I was jogging around our nearby lake when I saw two women walking. As I passed them, I recognized one as a former friend of mine. Our eyes met but she quickly averted them. I realized who it was by the time I was way past them. It brought back many memories of what I call The Dark Days of (My) Divorce.
Infidelity – a serious breach of trust. For our Moral Question of the Week, let’s ask if infidelity is EVER okay?
Some religions and some spiritual groups/thinkers like to use the idea of “Unconditional Love” in ways that are bunk. Most EVERY love we have for every other human being is absolutely conditional and should be.
No, this weekly question page will not focus on politics but it is hard to ignore all that is going on in the world today. And, since our President is perhaps the most powerful and important person in the world, it’s hard to ignore the question of his role in the state of the world.
You’re married. You and your wife had opposite sex friends before you met and before you were married. Your wife has a gay male friend that she sees once or twice a year to go to a special event with. You have a female friend that you met on a date well before you met your wife. At that “tennis date,” you both looked at each other after and said, “Friends.” You never even kissed.
I took my son car shopping recently and it was truly a fun and illuminating experience – for both of us! Actually, the title of this column is slightly wrong since we were lease shopping though, for all practicality, it is was the same thing since the lessons learned are similar and even a bit more layered when a lease is involved.
