The San Diego Padres are up for sale, because John and Becky Moores are no longer willing to be married. Baseball’s rules require one controlling owner, and they don’t have enough assets to split them without violating this rule, except by selling the team. According to SignOnSanDiego, “The Moores met in high school history class in Texas and married in 1963. They have four...
Pull up a chair and visit with a happily married woman who truly appreciates the rituals of sharing a home… Today’s guest blogger is Jennifer Blair. Jennifer is a recovering codependent, perfectionist, and workaholic. Sound like anyone you know? Jennifer can help. She will be speaking, along with Barbara Sher and six others, at the Time for Me retreat on March 27 – 29, 2009...
Today was a clear, autumn day in Pennsylvania. Perfect for a new experience. For the first time, I flew in a small, four-seater plane, a Cessna 172. In the pilot’s seat was my husband, now in possession of a pilot’s license after 40-some years of looking up at the sky and wishing. As a child, I had frequented airports and looked up, too, with my parents, who both flew until they had...
I found this fascinating description of marriage in Bali today, with yet another reason to be married: “For Balinese, a marriage in Bali is not just a union of two individual but also a passing of the baton religious and social responsibilities from father to son. Son inherits everything, wealth, debt, religious and social obligations, family temple, and of course obligation to perform...
Here’s a blog post from a woman engaged for the first time in midlife on her surprising discovery.
It’s different when you have love in your life.
It wasn’t the money I was afraid of losing,
it was the opportunity to become who I really am.
It’s not possible to do that when you are
afraid all the time.
