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Rethinking Retirement Planning

Over the weekend I read a newspaper article about retirement. It said lots of couples don’t talk about it either because they make assumptions about how it will all work out or they don’t think about it or they try to avoid it. I saved the story becaus …

Living the Law

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to follow every rule in the Bible? A.J. Jacobs did. The self-proclaimed agnostic (who, through the experiment, became a “reverent agnostic”), spent one year doing his best to follow 700 rules he identified i …

Just Scratch the Seven-Year Itch?

You may have heard about the challenge married couples often face seven years into their vows. A German politician named Gabriele Pauli made a dramatic suggestion this week for those couples: The Seven Year Itch, argues Germany’s most glamorous politic …

Magic Age to Marry?

  Is there a perfect age to marry? Does waiting until your late twenties or thirties give you greater maturity and a stronger financial foundation? Does marrying at a younger age give you a better shot at having prime energy for the parenting year …

10 Reasons Why Men Delay Getting Married

  According to a National Marriage Project study that’s a few years old now, men have a hard time committing because of the following reasons: They can get sex without marriage more easily than in times past. They can enjoy the benefits of having …

8 Ways to Enter the Work Force Well

  In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Holmes reports on the lack of career mentors for 20-somethings entering today’s job market. Here’s an excerpt explaining why: The mentor-mentee relationship used to be a partnership between a manager …

Our General Calling

  I thought Ted’s post on calling was interesting and brought up some good points. However, I would like to take the discussion in my post in a bit of a different direction. I have always known that I wanted to be a writer. When I was young, I wro …

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