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Some time ago you both made a promise. A promise to each other. Now it's time to recognise that you both meant that promise, and that now you both still mean it. There's no better way to do that than with a gift of a diamond anniversary ring. Well maybe there is. Two diamond anniversary rings, one for him and one for her.

Diamond anniversary rings are also called eternity rings. That's because that's how long you are both making your pledge to each other.

The tradition of celebrating an anniversary of marriage began in medieval times when the only anniversaries celebrated were the 25 and 50 year anniversaries. Then a husband would crown his wife with a wreath of silver for 25 years and of gold for 50 years. Nowadays there is more than just the silver and gold anniversarie...

I couldn't sleep last night. This is something associated with my chronic illness. The pain becomes unbearable, I cannot sleep, and no amount of pain medication helps. I've been living with this since 1993.

So, there I was awake thinking about a conversation I've been having with an extraordinary individual, by e-mail, over the illegal alien issue. This reader, and I always feel honored when someone bothers to write me about my columns, has been extraordinary in that he has been kind enough to write and gently point out some deficiencies in my thinking.

He hasn't called me names (and I have been called some doozies), he hasn't preached, but he has challenged my thinking with facts.

I won't tell you who he is because I think he is the type of person who might be a bi...

The Proper Use of Statistics

There are a lot of facts, figures, evidence, and statistics in the "Illegal Mexican" controversy. Everyone has something to quote in the debate no matter on which side of the fence he or she is standing.

Even a lie or a sincerely held false belief is liable to have some facts to support, at least in the mind of the beholder, that the position is the correct one. Sometimes, it is a truckload of facts, manuals, abstracts, and studies that someone produces to "prove" a pointGand it still turns out to support a falsely held belief.

How can this be so? I mean, if I inundate you with enough facts for my position, shouldn't you yield to my point of view?

No, you should not.

There is a book that every person who seeks to take the pos...

Diamond promise rings are quite common, but many are not all that sure what they are. What is a promise ring? And what does it mean?

Promise rings (all of them, not just diamond promise rings, I just love diamond ones) are a symbol of a promise made between 2 people that both intend to keep.

Not just any old promise, there are lots of those. But a really serious promise. One that is so important between two people that they are both prepared to make a public statement of their promise and intention to keep it by the wearing of a diamond promise ring.

They can also be known variously as a pre engagement ring, or a purity ring. Each is slightly different. Sometimes they are called a friendship ring, perhaps incorrectly.

A pre engagement ring is a symbol of an in...