Dear Holly, How are you? I have enclosed an article for you. It says that couples who live together before they get married have a 50 percent higher divorce rate than couples who don’t. I thought you might want to know that before you move in with Sam. Love, Heidi It was a desperate letter. […]
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“Can we talk for a minute?” I pull my friend into another room where we can talk privately. And then I breathe deep. I am about to enter into a courageous conversation. Ironically, during the 8 hours prior, I had taught a few hundred C3 conference participants how to have a courageous conversation. And like
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I pointed my finger indignantly at the black woman on the stage next to me, “I am not prejudiced!” She tilted her head back and laughed, “Honey, we are all prejudiced!” And that was how I first met Naima- in a play on a stage. I would tell you she’s African American, but I have
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Her blue eyes are full of courage, full of hope. My friend and neighbor, Peri, sits in the hospital bed that has been set up in her bedroom, writing out her goals for 2014 on a tablet. She lists things like finishing her scrapbooks and celebrating her 50th birthday on February 4th. And then she
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Today marks the first day of National Hereditary Breast & Ovarian Cancer Week. It also marks the three-year anniversary of a monumental event in my life- the day I opted to undergo a preventative mastectomy because of my own hereditary risk of cancer. Three days before my surgery I wrote an essay entitled, “Goodbye.” After