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On 8th December, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released the latest figures on divorces taking place in 2010. Having recently written about the trends over recent years, and what this tells us about the health of marriage as an institution, it i...

Men have traditionally been seen as always having good coping skills with whatever life throws at them. However, now that we look back upon those stoic role models we can see this is not true with rampant drinking, drugs, nightmares, anger, and many other...

Finding the right words to express something that we truly feel is quite hard. It is even stressful at times when we have to force ourselves to come up with something. The difficulty in putting our feelings to words is one of the reasons why the greeting ...

We all would like to think that people will keep their word, that a handshake or a nod of the head is enough to secure a commitment. Of course if that were true attorneys would be less in demand. The reality is that if it's not in writing, it is as if i...

We recently received an email from a dear friend and colleague with whom we are working closely to foster civil civic conversation in our community. It contained a comment she saw in a forum discussion on the website of The National Coalition for Dialogue...

We've all been blindsided one time or another by a bill that's far in excess of what we expected, and often the worst offenders are those that come from energy companies. It's never an easy task to tell how much energy we've actually used, so even when fa...