Is this the end of the world? Or are you having a bad day? My cell phone rang at 12:45 Sunday morning. On the other end of the line was a woman yelling, Dr. Mike please call 911, my cell is not letting me call 911, please help me, my husband is stabbing himself. I quickly made the call to dispatch; her husband was taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. This couple had been fighting for several days, and the wife could no longer take it. She was now fighting back to save her s...
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What did you say about me? I got a call from a friend who wanted some juicy gossip about a friend of ours. I listened and was pondering how I should address this situation. He started to share very personal details about our mutual friend. I said wait a minute, how about if we just go to Bob's house and confront him and ask him if what your sharing is true! The silence on the other end was deafening. I waited for him to respond, and had to ask him, if he was still on the phone. He stammered and...
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The morning started out pretty well, it was snowing, no wind, quiet in the back country. I had planned a nice hike and photo shoot in the woods that Saturday morning back in Wisconsin. I had a friend that wanted to go along and take pictures of winter scenes. I showed up at his place at 6:00 AM, and waited in his driveway while trying to find a decent radio station to listen to. The defroster was on high, the wiper blades were brushing the snow that was falling, it was beautiful outside! I foun...
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As the unending saga of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford continues to unspool across the mainstream news media and the web, it can be daunting to try to keep up with the details. He said, she said seems to be the way this is headed. I can tell you that this will get real ugly as soon as details are released. What would posses a well known governor to be so foolish to think he would not be missed at the office, by his family, or the press, just shows you how much a man's libido will cause him to ...
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I just talked to a client who was looking for a lost love when they were a teenager 20 years ago. They got on Classmates.com and searched, they called friends who might know where he was, but to no avail. I heard how she broke up with her long time boyfriend, and now looking back, regrets ending the relationship (she is divorced). I bet each of us has a regret over a past relationship that we ended. What should we do now, that its been years since we have been involved with that...
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