The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

Kathy and I haven’t always been friends. We haven’t always thought of each other as sane or trustworthy.
Now we are friends. Now we do think of each other as sane and trustworthy.
How did we get from there to here?
We were talking one night last week over tea and crackers about showing a little more of [...]

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“Let us put our minds together to see what life we can make for our children.” — Sitting Bull

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“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief [...]

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Contemplative Chaplain: And There Is Still Just One – “When you are an only child of parents who have divorced, even when the divorce was a good divorce, a healthy divorce, even when the divorce presented new life possibilities which allowed wonderful step-parents into your life who nurtured you far more than you ever could [...]

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By Katherine Shirek Doughtie
Yes, I still belong to this blog. Jill has not created a clever marketing alter ego named Kathy and forgotten to post in her name. I still exist and I still, occasionally, can stay awake long enough at the end of the day to find time to write. Obviously [...]

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