What is the Best Way to Save Toxic Marriages?

What is the Best Way to Save Toxic Marriages?

In 1944 Frank Capra, the celebrated director, produced a comedy film called Arsenic and Old Lace. It’s about two sweet but murderous aunts who put poison in the elderberry tea that was served to a succession of male residents in their boarding house and then stored...
What Damages a Marriage?

What Damages a Marriage?

This was a question asked of Peter and me over a TV network interview. These are a few of our answers: POOR COMMUNICATION Shouting uncontrollably and blasting away at your mate, saying, “Well, that’s just how I feel and I can’t do anything about...
Whatevering

Whatevering

What’s your go-to word when you want to say something but run out of words? Mine? “Whatever.” The Bible offers a whatevering alternative: Philippians 4:8 “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is...
How Do I Handle Toxic People in a Toxic World?

How Do I Handle Toxic People in a Toxic World?

On November 1, 2006 Alexander Litvinenko, a former lieutenant colonel of Russia’s Federal Security Service, suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. Three weeks later, he was dead, a victim of a toxic substance identified as polonium-210, a radioisotope that caused a...
The Real Big “C”

The Real Big “C”

Some of you are aware that I recently came through a bout with throat cancer beneath my tongue and underwent chemo and radiation treatment. This was not my first bout with cancer. A number of years ago I was diagnosed with Melanoma cancer. Melanoma is the least common...