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RED SKELTON’S RECIPE FOR THE PERFECT MARRIAGE

RED SKELTON’S RECIPE : For those of you old enough to remember Red Skelton, I think you will enjoy this. For those of you not old enough you will see what you missed. Either way, his humor was always clean and he was a great entertainer. A re-run of great ‘one liners from the man […]

A Story of a Princess and the Grimaldi Curse

Is this a kiss to build a dream on, or a curse to end one? Karen Kissane July 9, 2011 Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/is-this-a-kiss-to-build-a-dream-on-or-a-curse-to-end-one-20110708-1h6qm.html#ixzz1RbTaM4hx AT HER civil marriage service, there were moments when the woman about to become Princess Charlene of Monaco looked dazed. A weak smile struggled to turn up the corners of her mouth. […]

Grandparents

WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT? (Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds) Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people’s. A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come […]

Mum! All I want for Christmas is this and this and this and that!

As a parent of a 10 year old boy, I have struggled with gift ideas at Christmas since he was very young. I always had grand notions of what I would like to give him, although when he was old enough to start writing lists, it seemed our ideas didn’t align. As a parent, of […]

Age does not fan the rock’n’roll flame

Mark Mordue December 14, 2010 It would be fair to say that U2’s latest album No Line on the Horizon is the sound of a great band falling to their knees and failing. And that their 360 ° Tour is an attempt to refresh what that album attempted as well as reinforce their position as the […]

THE BLESSING OF A MATE

Someone has compiled the following list of observations about married life: * A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. * Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. * […]

What happens in funerals, and who decides?

Church rules on funeral rites and wrongs September 13, 2010 “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him, ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬â„¢ Mark Antony tells the Romans, according to Shakespeare. Today it would probably be the other way round: stacks of eulogies and anecdotes and Caesar ¢â‚¬â„¢s favourite songs  ¢â‚¬” Sinatra ¢â‚¬â„¢s My Way, probably  ¢â‚¬” followed by a cremation. […]

BEING A MOTHER….

After 17 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, ‘I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you.’ * * * The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was […]

Mixed Orientation Marriages [2]

I’ve just Googled Mixed Orientation Marriages, and found these at the top of their list of sites. Note that most of the articles listed do not have an explicit Christian approach. **** Mixed-orientation marriage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the more general concept, see Mixed marriage A mixed-orientation marriage is a marriage between a […]

Mixed Orientation Marriages [1] — Issues and Possibilities for Gay/Straight Marriages

Yesterday (2 July 2010) I put this on to Facebook: Friends: I counsel couples from time to time where one of the partners is gay/lesbian and the other is heterosexual. A hundred complex questions arise in these sessions, but one which I find most difficult to answer is: ‘*Rowland, do you know of any committed […]