The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

I have deer-in-the-headlight moments when meeting people with step-situations, too. Yesterday I met someone with a similar — but different — family set-up, and I couldn’t think of how to keep the conversation going. I found myself sitting there smiling blankly while thinking up things to say and then ruling them out because I couldn’t [...]

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The people who know Kathy best in the world tend to be pretty nice to me. They seem to like me, accept me and welcome me. And I love that. And I love them for that. And plus, I just like them. Kathy has great friends.
The people who know Kathy more than they know me, [...]

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Now that I’ve changed jobs to work closer to home, Jill and I have been getting together for a weekly lunch. This has been great and I look forward to it every week. Mostly we yak about girl stuff — relationships, hopes, fears — but it’s also a chance to sneak in a [...]

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I’ll be at BlogHer this coming weekend.
If you’re going and would like to meet up, email me at jilldoughtie@gmail.com.
If it helps for folks planning to be there in person, here’s what I look like…

…when I’m wearing a helmet. But I won’t have a bike helmet on. I’m mostly posting this because it’s got a picture [...]

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The three day rule was Kathy’s idea. If something happens that upsets one of us or that we’re mad or hurt about, we have to talk about it with the other one within three days. If we can’t bring ourselves to do that, we have to let it go. It’s no longer “mad-able”. It can’t [...]

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