Friends With Sexual Tension
Dear Belle and Beau, I’ve been friends with this guy for 2 years. We’ve never dated and have always been in relationships with other people. Now we are both single and there’s something about the way...
View Article6 Ways To Bring Back The Voice
My mother raised me not to call boys. This was ingrained in my head since I was a little girl. I also experienced during my dating life and married life, men who not only call but were willing to call...
View Article11 Ways To Be A Great Friend
The other night one of my dearest girlfriends and I were having a girls’ night of wine and gabbing. After hours of talking about everything from marriage and kids to cooking, boats, and even death, I...
View ArticleWishing You Peace
peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. For years I thought the definition...
View Article365 Days Of Sex: A Resolution
What may seem like ‘Too Much Information’ was actually a practice in marital harmony. Last year at the start of the new year as we were contemplating our resolutions, my husband suggested why don’t we...
View ArticleRecipes: Making Love Connections Through Generations
by Jennifer Kornegay I was 8 when I joined my grandmother (we called her Munnie) in her kitchen to “help” her cook for the first time. We were making haystacks, caramel and coconut confections that...
View ArticleCherry And Bart Starr: Lucky In Love
There are couples in this world that inspire us to love and to become better individuals. Their love and devotion to each other is not just seen, it is felt. They seem to have sipped a certain potion...
View Article10 Ways To Practice Silence
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. -Swedish proverb There’s something I value now in my life more than I ever did...
View ArticleFor The Bible Tells Me So: A Look At Unconditional Love And Same Sex Marriage
For God did not send his son to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. – John 3:17 On February 17, 2008 I discovered what it meant to love someone unconditionally, that was...
View Article10 Things I’ve Learned As A Mom
Mother – to bring up a child with care and affection. What an awesome responsibility being a mom is. Every day I have moments when it hits me smack in the face that I have no clue how to handle this...
View ArticleWe Are Stewards Of This Earth
I was in our house when my daughter came in, “Mommy will you come outside with me?” I went outside where I found she had piled some sticks, flowers, leaves, and rocks. She asked me to sit down beside...
View ArticleWhat If We Let Someone In
By Anna Goodwin Settle, PH.D. What if we slowed down when that infuriating driver whizzes past us and what if we even actually dared to let him over? Maybe he’s in a hurry to pick up his daughter from...
View ArticleWhat Is Love?
What is love? When we are young we are given advice on how to find it, how to keep it, and how we should expect it. This ‘love’ involves boy meets girl and it must hit certain levels of expectations to...
View ArticleOur Prince William
There are many things we can choose in this life. Most of us will choose where we will go to college, what degree we will pursue, whom we will marry, and when we start a family, but what most of us do...
View ArticleWoman Of Style: Get In Focus With Photographer Jana Jenkins Sobel
This wife and mother found her passion for photography through her family. She hopes her work may have a positive impact on others and lives each day with this goal in mind. She advises women that we...
View Article8 Ways To Get Out Of Your Head
My husband and I have always talked in depth about spirituality and God, but in recent years our spiritual journey has opened our hearts and minds to a deeper understanding of love and humanness. Does...
View ArticleWoman Of Style: Moll Anderson Living In Color
Photo by Jeff Katz With a month of honoring women, it only seems fitting to kick off Women’s History Month featuring a woman who embodies strength, intelligence, love, hard work, reinvention, charity,...
View ArticleWhen Death Came To Dinner
It was a sunny May day outside as I sat holding my grandmother’s hand. She had been unresponsive for a few days at the nursing home and now her breathing had changed. I came to visit and was the only...
View ArticleWoman of Style: Survivor Dixie Bailey
I know many strong, fierce women, but my definition of what strong is completely changed when I witnessed one of the most beautiful souls I know fighting for her life. The positive attitude and the...
View Article7 Ways To Avoid Scrambled Egg Brain
Over Thanksgiving I was reflecting on the things I am thankful for. Besides my family and friends, I am also deeply thankful for a change that has happened in my life over the past few years. I am...
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