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January 2012 Columns

January 2-8, 2012

Better Health: The Resolution that Makes All Others Easier
This isn’t the only New Year’s resolutions list you’ll read this month, nor is it the only one with good ideas to offer. But it is one you should take to heart if you want to make the others far more do-able.

January 9-15, 2012

Twogether in Texas Proves that Old-School Relationship Skills Work for Today’s Marriages
William Shakespeare described love as “an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.” Eloquent as these 500-year-old words are, they’re also wildly out of sync with an age when some high-profile romances (we’re looking at you, Kim and Kris!) can be measured in days, not decades. Twogether in Texas wants to make them relevant again.

January 16-22, 2012

Cold Weather is Back in a Big Way – and so is the Need to Guard against Hypothermia
For a venerable older lady, Mother Nature has offered a surprisingly spot-on imitation of an impulsive teenager over the past year.

January 23-29, 2012