Articles on Family

Muscle Pain And Children Do Not Mix

I am in pain. I've been in pain all day. Last night, I was in "searing pain", which is pain multiplied by pain, divided by relief, then multiplied by pain to the tenth power. In case you are not...

read full article

Ghost Stories

When I started teaching English at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, nobody warned me about the ghosts.

Northwestern a beautiful, old granite building ...

read full article

The Thanksgiving Blessing

Wouldnt you just know it, muttered my husband, Randy.

We had already been driving for a couple of hours in a pickup truck that we had borrowed from a friend, and now it was completely...

read full article

10 Simple Steps To Avoid Phony Telemarketers

Although telemarketing calls should diminish, especially if youve registered for the national do-not-call list, scam artists are still out there hoping to con you out of your hard earned money....

read full article

Coping with Your Abuser

How to cope with your abuser?

Sometimes it looks hopeless. Abusers are ruthless, immoral, sadistic, calculated, cunning, persuasive, deceitful - in short, they appear to be invincible. They...

read full article

The Narcissist and His Family

We are all members of a few families in our lifetime: the one that we are born to and the one(s) that we create. We all transfer hurts, attitudes, fears, hopes and desires a whole emotional...

read full article

What is Abuse?

Violence in the family often follows other forms of more subtle and long-term abuse: verbal, emotional, psychological sexual, or financial.

It is closely correlated with alcoholism, drug...

read full article

7 Good Reasons to Have Your Cat Spayed or Neutered

Every year, many cat owners decide to get their cat spayed or neutered. This decision is made for several different reasons, all of which illustrate why it is such a good idea.

The many...

read full article

Stop Telemarketers, Do Not Call List or Not

American consumers have spoken and have done so loudly registering 50 million telephone numbers with the FTCs National Do-Not-Call list since the registry debuted in July.

This new...

read full article

Indian Summer

It was a warm, sunny October afternoon one day when I was a kid, and as I walked up the hill of our driveway after getting off the school bus at our Wisconsin dairy farm, I wondered how many more...

read full article