• Resist Terrorism Through Compassion When you are at war, you feel alone, isolated and as if no one cares about you. Think about it.  Have you ever argued with someone and found yourself repeating the story over and over again in an effort to get people to be ‘on your side’? This is your effort to not feel alone in the battle.  When a country is at war, the citizens of that country feel

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    Stepmothers Are Like The Sun.No One Owes Us Anything, While We Try to Keep the Home Warm Is The Stepmother Owed Anything? Hafiz says, "The sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me'."  Yet, the sun lights up the entire earth.  It begs the question, "Does anyone owe anyone?"  I have a gut feeling that many stepmothers have thought to themselves, "you owe me".  Have you ever felt that your

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    Can Faith Help the Stepmom? Yes, we did.  Heather Hetchler of Cafesmom and I did a radio show about faith and how it does or doesn't fit into our stepfamilies.  Faith is such a controversial topic because it is clearly related to religion.  In our case, Heather is Christian and I am Jewish.  For that reason, we thought it would be fun to discuss our faiths and see how we both fit faith into

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