Author: Patti Maguire Armstrong

Optimistic Antidotes

Warning: parenting lends itself to pessimism.  Once the euphoria of holding your precious newborn bundle evaporates, you will find infinite reasons to fret and complain. “She never sleeps.   It seems like she wants to eat every...

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Single Minded

Have you heard the latest? According to a New York Times analysis of census results, for the first time in U.S. history, there are more single than married women.  In the “fifties” 35 percent of women were single. It was not...

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The Fermentation of Marriage

The quality of a marriage, like a fine wine, depends on the aging process. As grape juice ferments, the yeast acts upon the sugar to produce alcohol—the wine.  The greater the percentage of sugar present in the grapes, the more...

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