Ken Potts
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Teaching teens to value life may help prevent suicidesFeb 24, 2015 10:00 pm - Not too long ago, adolescent suicide was prominent in the media again and numerous newspapers and magazines ran high-profile articles about this alarming trend. Most of ...
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Wedding of 70-somethings imbues guests with hopeFeb 18, 2015 10:00 pm - Delighted. That's the only word that fit the looks on the faces of the people around me. The smiles started with the entrance of the bridal party: two granddaughters, a ...
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Tantrums, distraction and social butterflies are all just part of growing upFeb 16, 2015 12:01 am - Our 2-year-old stomps her feet, looks defiantly into our eyes, and tells us in no uncertain terms that she is not going to bed. When we ask our 6-year-old to pick up his...
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Curtailing children's curiosity with cursingFeb 08, 2015 12:01 am - "Hey, Dad! Wanna hear all the 'swears' I know?" "Dad, you know I'd never use words like *&%#@ and #@&*%!" "Dad, guess what I heard on the TV?" We were having dinner with...
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Stuckey's buildings illustrate how people adapt to changeJan 28, 2015 10:00 pm - You remember Stuckey's? They were certainly a part of my childhood and, I expect, a part of yours as well. Long before every interstate exit was clogged with fast-food o...
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Lessons from a kid, a cop and a cold winter's dayJan 21, 2015 10:00 pm - There are days that are classic examples of Chicago winter. We all know them: cold, damp, windy, overcast. The sort of days we'll do almost anything to avoid going out...
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'Family math' doesn't always add upJan 18, 2015 12:01 am - Figuring out how families work can sometimes seem a lot like solving a rather complicated math problem. When we are confronted with a series of numbers that are to be ad...
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With crisis comes opportunityJan 11, 2015 12:01 am - Crisis: "An emotionally significant event or radical change of status in a person's life … the outcome of which will make a decisive difference for better or worse," acc...
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Illness can be reminder of our mortalityJan 04, 2015 12:01 am - I don't do "sick" well. Probably part of it is that I enjoy living life as fully as I can and being sick gets in the way of all the things I like to do. Of course, it m...
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Making the most of New Year's resolutionsDec 22, 2014 10:00 pm - "I'm going to lose 20 pounds this winter! (OK, I confess, that's the 10 pounds I said I was going to lose last winter, plus the extra 10 I gained this fall.)" "I will be...