gridleyherald.com http://www.gridleyherald.com/section/Columns gridleyherald.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 3:18:14 +0000 Jeff Vrabel: Flight ads http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219803/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:41:21 By Jeff Vrabel, GHNS http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219803/1008/OPINION The Guy’s Perspective: Learning to be more confident http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219804/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:39:28 By Saelen Ghose, GHNS http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219804/1008/OPINION Family Matters: Finding ways to help children cope with death http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130201/NEWS/130209984/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 1 Feb 2013 12:36:12 By Diana Boggia, GHNS http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130201/NEWS/130209984/1008/OPINION I just received a phone call that my ex-husband’s mother died. My two daughters loved her and I know they will be upset, so I want to find the right words to help them through this. I also need to prepare them for their first funeral with someone they loved, and prepare them for the process of it all. They were traumatized at a previous funeral of a family member they didn’t even know, so I hate to think of what this might do to them.
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Lost in Suburbia: And the Academy Award goes to … http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130123/NEWS/130129932/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 23 Jan 2013 8:35:10 By Tracy Beckerman, GHNS http://www.gridleyherald.com/article/20130123/NEWS/130129932/1008/OPINION It was a perfectly reasonable question. It was a Saturday afternoon. We had no plans. But having been married to this guy for 20 years, I knew this question wasn’t as innocent as it seemed. There was a hidden meaning. It was actually code for, “Do you want to see that new action movie with lots of special effects, a huge body count and bad guys with fake foreign accents?”
“What did you have in mind?” I asked innocently.
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