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His & Hers: Life in the Miller madhouse (12/6/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. The Miller house is a madhouse. With two boys younger than 2, even under normal circumstances, our days are filled with "take me away" moments where Callie and I threaten to bolt to Mexico for a permanent escape...
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His & Hers: Sometimes life is a bear hunt (10/11/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID For the third time that morning, Dawson pushed the white softbound picture book into my lap. I looked at him looking at me, big brown eyes eager and expectant. As if sensing my hesitation, he shoved the book closer to my hand and opened it to the first page...
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Pondering the ticktock of time (8/16/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID Eli is ticktocking just a few feet away under the glow of a silent television. He's asleep there in his swing, rocking in his little time machine. Six weeks old, now, the little guy...
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A tale of fatherhood (6/21/09)By Bob Miller There once was a boy, about 5 or 6 years old, who saw all the attention his mother and father were giving his little brother. The little brother had casts on his legs from surgeries due to birth defects. "Daddy," the little boy asked. "Do you love him more than me?"...
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Rights and religious freedoms (5/24/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID Imagine a mom. The mom of a teenager. The mom of a sick teenager, a teenager who has a life-threatening disease. There is a treatment, one that will improve her son's odds by as much as 90 percent...
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His & Hers: Parenthood is worth the pain (4/12/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID The first time I passed out after a shot in the booty, I was 11. I'd had a recurring case of strep throat for two months, and when my mom took me back to the doctor she warned me that I might need a shot. ...
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City mouse and country mouse make a home (4/5/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID We're going to my parents' house to celebrate Dawson's first birthday this weekend. That sounds so weird. Normally, I would say we're going home instead of to my parents' house. But last week, that changed. My parents, who have lived in the same house for 26-plus years on the same property that has been in my dad's family since 1884, moved to a new house...
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His & Hers: Surprises await in the next parenting stage (3/22/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID It has occurred to me several times this week that I may be an unfit mother. Like the morning I discovered Dawson had escaped from the nursery through the baby gate, crawled into the bathroom, ingested who knows how much toilet paper and then scrubbed his mouth out with the toilet brush...
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His & Hers: He does this, she does that (3/1/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID Bob and I fall into that traditional marriage trap. We each feel like we're respectively carrying the load of household responsibilities. Phrases like "Why am I always the one who ..." are a regular part of our dialogue...
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His & Hers: Now you see it, now you don't (2/22/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID The Andes Mint is the perfect example of Bob's philosophy on food consumption. I watched as he shoved it in, immediately chewed it up, swallowed and was done with the whole thing in about 10 seconds. What a waste. I, on the other hand, savored mine, letting the chocolate melt into delicate mint on my tongue...
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His & Hers: Feeling pressure and love (2/15/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID It's funny how your priorities change when you have children. I recently thought about all sorts of great stuff I'd love to buy with the birthday money my family gave me. It soon dawned on me that none of it was actually for me...
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His & Hers: Another Miller boy on the way (2/8/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID We'll be just like the Tool Time Taylors, was stepson Drew's response to our ultrasound results this week. That's right. I'm resigned to being the only source of femininity in our household...
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His & Hers: What he loves about her (1/25/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID In my estimation, President Obama won his election on the premise and promise of hope. That's an interesting concept in these days and times, considering all the weighty sludge that oozes down our economic gutter. Perhaps that message of hope is what people want to hear these days. That silver-lining approach...
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His & Hers: Cat wonders, What can It be? (1/11/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SCOOP SAID (Part II) Sacre bleu! That creature continues as the bane of my existence. The developments in recent months have been both rapid and alarming -- rapidly alarming, in fact. ...
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Nis & Hers: Won't let nobody hurt you (1/4/09)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID I'd seen those eyes before. Dawson's chocolate-colored orbs, wide even in pain, flitted around the claustrophobia-inspiring room. They were settled on my face as strangers in bright scrubs held him down and inserted a needle under his delicate skin. I knew those eyes. I saw the torment within and the unspoken question. Those accusing eyes never left my face...
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His & Hers: The marital year in review (12/28/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID I suppose the Miller household will look back upon 2008 and laugh. What else could we do? Callie and I, until this year, considered ourselves boring people, a couple of up-and-comer wannabes trying to make our way in the world. ...
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The keys to a happy marriage (12/21/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID In the ever-going battle of minor arguments in the Miller household, Callie is winning the marital ping-pong match something like 347 to 2. I know, I know, when you argue, you shouldn't keep score. Marriage is not about keeping score, about who wins and who loses. It's about love and commitment...
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His & Hers: Are they nuts? (12/14/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID We haven't been completely honest with you. And if there's one thing we try to be in this column, it's honest about what's happening in our lives. Folks ask us all the time, "Is all of that stuff you write about true?" Sadly, yes. This is our life, sans pretty packaging to cover up the mundane, the ridiculous or the just plain stupid...
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His & Hers: Watch that step; it's a doozy (12/7/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID The orange glow on the clock reads 6 a.m., the time for me to get out of bed and greet my son Drew. His mother, who works early, drops him off at my house at that time every morning, and he comes through the door and walks straight to his bed, usually without saying hello...
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His & Hers: She shoots a gun, he aims a camera (11/23/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID It would have been more peaceful to take a crying Dawson. That's what I was thinking as I perched statuelike in my blind and listened to the creaking and popping noises of Bob shifting his weight and stretching his legs behind me...
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His & Hers: Searchin' for my lost package of socks (11/16/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID Callie and I took our first flight together last week. We, along with colleague Matt Sanders, went to Pennsylvania to observe another newsroom...
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His & Hers: Sense and scentsability (11/9/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID Bob has very little scentsability. I can prove it. A couple years ago, he went away on a business trip and came back with a present: some expensive body lotion from an exclusive shop. He was pleased with himself; had taken the time to sniff various samples in the shop (was the salesgirl cute, Bob?) and select the "perfect" scent for me...
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His & Hers: The '08 Survival Tour: Putting family and sanity first (11/2/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. Here Bob offers his view on child rearing. HE SAID Taking care of a baby seems to me kind of like an election. Remember when Alaska Gov. ...
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His & Hers: Couple tries to heal injuries you see and insults you don't (9/28/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. My name is Bob. And I'm a selfaholic. I have not been a good husband this week. It's been a horrible week, one where my cute and talented wife could be neither cute nor talented. When she needed me to be a rock, all she got was a dirt clod, a useless chunk that crumbled under pressure...
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His & Hers: Shopping for approval in the grocery store (9/14/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID Bob and I both hate grocery shopping. We've shared the long list of reasons why in previous columns. But we like to eat, so when the kitchen cabinets hold only the bottle of vanilla extract and stale taco shells, one of us is usually forced to the store...
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His & Hers: Settling into a sleep pattern (9/7/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID I enjoy living in 2008. Many people bemoan the nowadays, lamenting the rat race the world has become, complaining about the decline of morals in society, cursing everything from the economy to politics to newspaper columnists...
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She's 'selective' with food; he's careless with comment (8/24/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. This column first appeared Aug. 28, 2005, in the Southeast Missourian. HE SAID: I once dropped a small piece of grilled steak on the ground outside. I picked it up and ate it. But only after wiping off the grass...
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Finding their way through closets, fashion (8/10/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID: "I don't like black," Bob said, in the obstinate tone he uses when I try to get him to eat peas. "What do you mean, 'I don't like black?' Since when?"...
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The electronic art of marital compromise (8/3/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. A recent e-mail exchange between husband and wife: On 7/14/08 9:42 AM, "Callie Clark Miller" wrote: Dear Bob, Every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. for the next 14 weeks, your wife shall be otherwise engaged. You will need to make plans to care for Dawson between 8 and 9 p.m. on those dates...
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Fresh parents still being broken in (6/29/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID: The good folks on the copy desk were poking fun of Callie and me a few weeks ago, as it seemed every one of our columns dealt with baby poo. Or the lack thereof, as it were. Feeling that you might be tiring of the, er, substance of our columns, we veered off the baby talk for a while to discuss other things...
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Shouldn't customer service help the customer? (6/1/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID: Please tell me what is so difficult about a cheeseburger with pickles only. I have given up on getting what I want at fast food drive-through windows. ...
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The joy of kidney stones and the parallel universe (5/18/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID: I worried a lot about giving birth when I was pregnant with Dawson. A lot. You see, I don't handle pain all that well. My threshold is low, nearly nonexistent based on the way I carry on when I get a paper cut or stub my toe...
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Shot in the rear knocks you on your butt (3/2/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. HE SAID: In this week's column, we'll start with the punchline and work backward. I woke up Saturday morning in a drug-induced haze to discover two women dressed as nurses hovering over the top of me. And my pants were unbuttoned...
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Cool the jets, birth isn't rapid-fire (2/10/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID: I've sort of become obsessed with detailing every possible scenario surrounding labor and delivery of Dawson...
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Do-it-yourself turns out pretty difficult (1/27/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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It's a terrible thing, this getting old business (1/20/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller use this space to offer their views on everyday issues. SHE SAID: "It's a terrible thing, this getting old." That's what my grandfather always says to me. "Hi, papaw. How are you today," I'll ask as I come in the doorway of his rural Carter County home and find him sitting in his chair by the fireplace. "I'm not," he'll answer every time. "It's a terrible thing, this getting old business."...
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Facing our fears (1/13/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives. This column first appeared in the Southeast Missourian Aug. 25, 2005....
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Backing up unreasonable fears with research (1/6/08)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Wii love to play and make fools of ourselves (12/30/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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She's sweet, but sugar melts when wet (12/23/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Chores are chores whether you split or share them (12/16/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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The first photos show a healthy Miller baby (12/2/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, work in the same office and somehow manage to cling to their sanity. Usually, the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives. This one was from Bob's point of view....
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We're insane and undecided, so help us choose a baby name (11/25/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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If it's not one thing, it's another: sneezing, snoring and muscle spasms (11/18/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Staying home alone has perks, precautions (11/11/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Happy Thanksgiving. Now where's the tree and holly? (11/4/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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What to do with 10 precious minutes (10/28/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two perspectives....
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Meal and quite the show (10/21/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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What were we thinking? (10/14/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Being clothes-minded (10/7/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives. This recount of the view on appearance first ran in the Southeast Missourian on Oct. 9, 2005....
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Procrastination and the pink fuzzies (9/30/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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The symbol may be lost, but the meaning is still there (9/23/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Another meaning for Sept. 11 (9/16/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Cold feet and compromise (9/2/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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C.C. Miller rides with the big guns; hubby left at the bus stop (8/26/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Study shows the wife knows best (8/19/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Putting his millionaire dreams on hold (8/12/07)SHE SAID: You wouldn't think the words "we could make millions!" could prompt spontaneous eye-rolling. But coming out of my husband's mouth, believe me, they can. Every so often, which is to say, every few weeks, Bob begins a sentence with those very words. "Honey, we could make millions!"...
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Life with a temporarily one-armed wife (8/5/07)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house (still), work in the same office (again) and somehow manage to cling to their sanity (barely). Older and wiser (she's wiser, he's just older), the Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on everyday issues, told from two different perspectives....
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Welcome to Dumpsville, population: You (8/20/06)SHE SAID: Dearest readers, We didn't want it to end this way. Really, it's us. Not you. Don't take this so hard. There'll be others, some day. Yes, it's true. We're breaking up with you. It turns out, Bob can't type a column while simultaneously making the 1.5-hour commute to St. Louis every day. And I'm not interesting enough on my own to fill this space...
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What did Oliver ever do to you or your lime green shirt? (8/13/06)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house and tiny bathroom but not always the same opinion. They offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives. SHE SAID: There are a few things in life a wife should never force her husband to do...
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Turning 30 and losing your shirt (7/23/06)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house and tiny bathroom but not always the same opinion. They offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives. HE SAID: A few Saturdays ago, Callie insisted we clean out the bedroom from baseboard to ceiling. ...
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Everyone makes a mistake, or two (7/16/06)SHE SAID: I've known since I was 16 that God had a sense of humor. Or at least a sense of irony. The first day I drove my car to school after getting my driver's license, I ignored my parents. Not only did I pile a bunch of friends in the car, but I also drove onto the four-lane highway outside my hometown of Van Buren -- both of which mom and pop had instructed against...
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Riding high, until sales tax hits (7/9/06)SHE SAID: I should know by now that spur-of-the-moment purchases don't usually work out well for me. Take that $65 fuschia sweater that shrank in the wash, for example. Or that magnet maker/laminator/sticker maker all-in-one machine I just had to have when it was on sale at a local craft store. There was a reason it was on sale...
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Decorating dilemma: the floating mirror (7/2/06)HE SAID: I walked out into the hallway the other day, and there sat a mirror. The mirror was full-length, trimmed in black and resting against the wall. Aha, I thought. There's a column. Because there's a story behind that mirror. The story begins a few years ago when Callie started taking over the house. ...
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A long commute ups chances of breakdown (6/25/06)Consider this the obligatory "here's-how-the-new-job-is-going" column. We'll get back to the juicy stuff next week. HE SAID: Faithful readers of this column know about Little Red. She's my 1994 Ford Probe. More than 170,000 miles. Runs a little rougher than she used to. If her engine was a speaking voice, she'd sound like Rosanne Barr...
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From son to father: A letter to dad (6/18/06)"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain. SHE SAID: I asked Bob to write this week's column about being a divorced dad in honor of Father's Day...
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Saying a partial good-bye (6/11/06)SHE SAID: For the first time in four years -- since I've known Bob -- we no longer work for the same company. Now don't panic. We'll still be here every Sunday morning for your daily dose of marital disaster. But Bob won't be here, in the Southeast Missourian, the other six days of the week (unless he happens to get arrested and lands in the police report.)...
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No room for cross dressing in a marriage (6/4/06)HE SAID: "You can wear my pajamas, honey." Oh, yeah. You read it right. Perhaps the six most feared words in the weekend trip vocabulary. Callie and I had just made the 2-hour trip to Van Buren, Mo. It was a late Friday night, and we had just said our good-nights to Callie's parents. We were staying in my in-laws' camper outside their house, getting ready for bed...
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Cell phones create communications divide for Millers (5/28/06)SHE SAID: BBHHRREEEEEEP. BBHHRREEEEEEP. BBHHRREEEEEEP. "Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. BOB MILLER is not available. To page this person, press 5 now. At the tone, please record your message." I spend more time talking on the phone to that sickeningly cheerful voice than to my husband...
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The thump method of refrigeration (5/21/06)SHE SAID: The smell started out unobtrusive enough. Just a faint waft that prompted me to sniff the air around the trash can in the kitchen. A few days later, walking through the front door of our house was like taking a bath in the landfill on Highway 25. Gag...
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Putting the mom in stepmom (5/14/06)SHE SAID: Dear stepmoms, Is today awkward for you too? Around the country, millions of moms are celebrating Mother's Day. And, boy, do they deserve the recognition. But each time this holiday rolls around, I can't help thinking, why isn't there a Stepmother's Day too?...
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A new generation of (reluctant) campers (5/7/06)SHE SAID: At an early age, I learned how to make s'mores in the microwave. Call it a coping mechanism, one used to sever the only worthwhile tie to a family tradition. S'mores are about the only thing I enjoy when it comes to camping. If I can experience that same chocolate/marshmallow gooey goodness at home, then that eliminates the need to ever go camping. Right? Right?...
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Help wanted: Miller & Miller Inc. about to go under (4/30/06)HE SAID: I didn't know what shims were until about a month ago. They're small pieces of wood used to fix carpentry mistakes. They're wedged between wall frames and floors, between studs, anywhere where one piece of wood might not be plumb with another...
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Reliving her bad dream (4/23/06)SHE SAID: She was just a little girl who made one big mistake. She married right out of high school to escape everything she thought was bad in life, and she discovered life could be much worse than she'd ever anticipated. But that wasn't her real mistake...
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Wife's revenge on Wilson turns ugly (4/16/06)SHE SAID: Three people live in my house. Only one of us changes the toilet paper roll in the bathroom. This week, I took my revenge. Do you remember Wilson? You were introduced a few weeks ago, so shame on you if you've forgotten him already (I only wish I could forget him). ...
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Thank you, readers; hello second grade girls (4/9/06)SHE SAID: After last week's column, we knew this one would be tough. Parleying about our usual day-to-day quirks doesn't seem appropriate after writing about the loss of a life we loved and after an outpouring of support from strangers through e-mails and cards...
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The growing pains of a family (4/2/06)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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All hail Wilson, conqueror of snot monsters (3/12/06)SHE SAID: My husband doesn't snuggle up to me at night. He snuggles up to Wilson. It's not what you think. It's worse. Wilson is what we named the roll of toilet paper Bob keeps at his side due to the most disgusting case of allergies I have ever seen (ever seen "Cast Away"? It's like that Wilson, except not a volleyball)...
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Our friendly neighborhood alarm clocks (3/5/06)HE SAID: Sleep is a huge issue at our house. Usually my head hits the pillow somewhere in the 1 a.m. range, give or take an hour depending on how breaking stories or broken computers affects the dissemination of the news. My sleep is then broken by the 7 a.m. buzz of the alarm clock when I disseminate Drew to South Elementary. It then is broken once more at around 8:30 a.m. when my cute and talented wife wakes me with an apparel emergency...
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Driving each other to crazy and back again (2/26/06)HE SAID: I don't fight it anymore. As with most disputes with my cute and talented wife, I caved. And now I drive ALL THE TIME. Neither of us like driving much. We're both fairly lazy and would rather take naps on long trips, or just take in the scenery on short ones...
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Anything worthwhile is worth celebrating in style (2/19/06)SHE SAID: The first mention came right before Christmas. Just a casual reminder to Bob that four momentous occasions would take place in less than two months -- our one-year wedding anniversary Feb. 11, my birthday Feb. 12, the two-year anniversary of the day he proposed Feb. 13 and Valentine's Day Feb. 14...
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The Safety City bully versus our little Zen master (2/5/06)SHE SAID: We had an unfortunate incident last week. In our supposedly in-control parental-type role as 8-year-old Drew's part-time keepers, one would assume that Bob and I are capable of handling in a calm and reasonable manner nearly any situation that should arise on a playground...
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Clothes encounters of the larger kind, Part II (1/29/06)SHE SAID: You may not believe this, but my husband did not think I represented his views accurately in last week's column about weight loss (the one he failed to turn in on time, thereby forcing me to write his part for him). In fact, he immediately called for a do-over. So, I'm keeping my rant short this week, and turning over the majority of space this column allows to my (cute and talented) husband...
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Clothes encounters of the larger kind (1/22/06)SHE SAID: At a recent family gathering, a kindhearted cousin-in-law commented on how well marriage was treating Bob (sly glance toward the tummy area). Bob handled it well outwardly, but I could see the bubble of volcanic indignation pop and then begin to spew forth -- all over me...
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For Sale: Our little bruised coup (1/15/06)I met Little Red when I was 20 years old. She was a sexy little thing, red, hot and smooth. She liked to play loud music and dance for me as we zipped down the road. She rocked...
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The monster in the Miller home (12/25/05)HE SAID: A monster lives in my home while I'm at work. Not a dangerous monster like King Kong. No, this monster is more like the kind you'd find on Sesame Street. Cute. Talented. And somewhat lacking in adult discipline. You see, this monster likes making messes. ...
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Mr. and Mrs. Cheesehead's TV debut and finale (12/18/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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Thwarting my Christmas sneak (12/11/05)SHE SAID: 'Tis the season for scheming, sneaking and flat-out lying to my husband. See, Bob has a Cliff Huxtable-like obsession with guessing what his gifts are beforehand. He is not above shaking/sme-lling/weighing wrapped presents or grilling 8-year-old Drew, who -- God love him -- has no idea how to fib to his daddy...
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Harry Potter and the fast-food flunky enabler (12/4/05)This column was supposed to be about the indignity forced upon us during the two hours we spent watching the new Harry Potter movie last Saturday night...
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A typical fight in the Miller home (11/20/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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Thanksgiving and other holiday skirmishes (11/13/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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A big welcome to our deer-hunting family (11/6/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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Looking at the bright side of life (10/30/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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Reader reaction and the mental hospital hotline (10/23/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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Remembering Ethan (10/16/05)When we sat down to talk about all the silly, quirky little things we could write about in this week's column, we realized that they all sounded, well, silly. This week, there's a much more important problem on our minds. Yes, even more important than the Cardinals making the World Series...
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Being clothes-minded (10/9/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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Work place woes (10/2/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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There's no room for trash talk in a marriage (9/11/05)SHE SAID: We don't play Boggle at our house anymore. When Bob and I started dating, we played all the time. And I was awful. Growing up, we played Monopoly, Rummy and Clue in my rural Carter County household. Bob's family, apparently, focused on games such as Boggle and Scrabble...
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Just because it's America's pasttime doesn't mean she has to like it (9/4/05)Since Bob and I started dating three years ago, there have been about 25 other people in our relationship. They all wear tight pants and swing sticks for a living. That's right. Baseball players...
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Household chores divide husband, wife (8/14/05)Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different perspectives...
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Jailbird Journalists (8/7/05)SHE SAID: Judith Miller is in jail today for a story she didn't write. Miller is a common name. We're not related. Yet somehow I kind of feel we are. Because, as a fellow journalist, I can put myself in her place all too easily...
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Her: violence is disturbing -- Him: Nah, Just boyhood fun (7/31/05)Editor's note: Husband-and-wife journalists Bob Miller and Callie Clark Miller share the same small house, tiny bathroom and even the same office. But not always the same opinion. The Southeast Missourian sweethearts offer their views on every-day issues, told from two different persectives...