Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.  -Booker T. Washington

by Eric Payne
In a week it will be Thanksgiving. Family will either arrive in town or you will pack up your own family, hit the road, train station or airport headed for the agreed upon turkey destination.
The holidays are here. They are a time for celebration and a time for reflection. During these times I tend to get warm and fuzzy about family — mine and everyone else’s. But like everything, the holidays pass just as the seasons do. Once they’re gone I’ll still have my wife and kids. But …

Is it realistic to expect that you’ll stay attracted to your spouse through all of life’s changes?

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past. -Nelson Mandela

I’m a firm believer in the fact that I should be my husband’s biggest fan.  Low or high, poor or rich, wrong or right, I’m going to stay by his side.  Obviously there are a few show stoppers to that–I’m not stupid–yet as long as we’re growing together and traveling in the same direction of purpose, I’m with him, thick and thin.
That being the case, I’ve learned through the five short years we have been married that in order for me to express that sentiment,  I have to do …

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. -Tony Robbins

On Thursday, November 12th we held our second DC screening of Happily Ever After: A Positive Image of Black Marriage. The screening was held at the historic Avalon Theatre and was followed by a panel discussion on marriage in the black community. Check out the pictures from a great evening.

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. -Arthur Ashe

By Tara Pringle Jefferson
Everyone always says, “Opposites attract,” but they never tell you what to do when you’re in love with someone who could not be more different from you.
For example, look at me and my husband. I’m pretty much the Energizer Bunny. Always on the go. Always. My husband complains that he can’t help me with the housework because I flit around the house so much he’s not even sure what I’m doing or where I’m going next.
My husband, on the other hand, moves so slow it should be …

We were asked to review one of  the new Lego Duplo sets and we were not disappointed. When we were first asked about it we pretty much knew what to expect. We have a 16  year old son that has been a Leo fanatic since back in the day LOL. The thing that’s cool about this new line of Legos called the Duplo are that the pieces are made a little larger so they are easier for the small kids to handle.

My only gripe with the Lego set is the …