Barton Goldsmith

When you are a person of honor and integrity, it keeps you on a purposeful and enriching path. It also helps you maintain a positive outlook on life and generally makes you a happier person. This is because when you ...

Mother's Day is a day you get to show your mom (or the mother of your children) how grateful you are that she is in your life. Don't waste the opportunity. By the way, there are many more than 10 ...

A new study at Emory University, recently published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, has found that married adults who've undergone heart surgery have a 300 percent higher survival rate than their single counterparts over the first three ...

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century," Mark Twain said.

Do you have a disaster plan? Does it include grabbing all your family photographs? If not, it should, and if it does, what you are reading will make the process safer and easier, as well as help you prevent an ...

You and your partner walk by each other without so much as a word spoken, and the thought of touching or caressing each other is as far from your desires as the moon.

There used to be a bumper sticker that read: "He who dies with the most toys wins." Well, back when we could make money in our sleep, perhaps that thought had some humor and merit, but no longer. Winning at ...

Why does it seem that we never have enough time to get all the things we need to get done, yet we can always make time for what we want to do? What a great trick it would be if ...

There are people who cannot love someone outside their immediate family. They may adore their children and parents, but they feel unstable when emotions for another person rise within their hearts. They may want a relationship, but they are too ...

Just before Thanksgiving, we finally got the dining room set we wanted. Now we could seat 10 people and share a meal, the way it was meant to be done. There is something about friends and family gathering around a ...

I am not a child of divorce. My parents stayed together, for better or worse. They did their best to work through their issues and never gave a thought to breaking up the family. Though I am sure homicide crossed ...

When the chips are down, you may need to employ some additional tools to help you get through it all. Sometimes we forget about using our inner resources, as well as how easy it can be to reach out to ...

All of us sometimes engage in behaviors that make our partners uncomfortable. The actions listed below can tear your relationship apart and if they have become part of how you relate to each other, you will have significant problems sooner ...

While watching some pregame get-you-in-the-mood programming on TV, I saw a segment where a number of athletes talked about how they would visualize the game before it started, imagining how well they would perform.

When my cat died, it hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks, even though I knew he was at the end of his life. I'd thought I might feel a sense of comfort, like I did after holding hospice ...