My wife and I just celebrated our 20th Anniversary and while I would like to tell everyone it has been a “cake walk”, I don’t want to lie. It hasn’t been. I also don’t want to paint the picture that our marriage has been without “challenges” or as I like to call them, “REALITIES” because it has been full of those.

On January 9th, 1988 my wife and I made public our decision to live the rest of our life as “ONE”. This is the way the Bible describes a marriage, that Two shall become One till death.

Today, divorce is not a popular issue but a very, very prominent one. And I wonder sometimes without judging the people in the divorce, if all of these marriages should have ended. Were the problems SO BIG that they couldn’t be overcome?

I don’t know.

I enjoy encouraging people to PRESS on in their marriages. A good marriage doesn’t just happen. You have to work for it and sometimes even FIGHT for it.

One of the real joys I get each year is to take part in Valentines Dinners and Marriage Conferences. Please look for me at an event near you.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at marty(@)martydaniels.com. Be sure to remove the ( and the ) around the @ to send the email.

Be sure to visit Marty’s website at http://www.MartyDaniels.com

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OK, this is the first post of 2008. I have the very best intentions of writing more regularly this year but if you look at the blogs I’ve had over the last 7 years…chances aren’t real great.

Browsing through the headlines today I see that Reggie Bush has already lost his mind…YIKES! Run, Reggie, Run!!!

At this minute the rage is “The Flat Belly Diet” which supposedly “All about food and attitude.” Is that the secret recipe the Colonel was talking about? I don’t think so!

So what did you do to ring in the new year? We had a quiet time of it with some friends and family and then came home and watched a movie..yeah, life at 40 is good!

Check back again soon to make sure I am posting.

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Over the years I’ve joked about some peoples dislike of mimes and of course when you think “MIME” you automatically think of Marcel Marceau so his name got dragged into the routine from time to time.

I just found out that Marceau passed away in France.

Even though mimes are the brunt of jokes in my set, I admire the courage that Marceau had throughout his life. He was a French Jew and risked death or deportation from France during WWII. He was allowed to stay in France and worked to rescue Jewish children from the nazis during that time of insanity.

Marcel Marceau was a inspired by Chaplin and Keaton who are masters of film making and physical comedy and an inspiration to generations of comedians, actors and entertainers around the world.

While the condition and cause of his death wasn’t revealed but I think it would be all too fitting if we find out that Marcel Marceau died “quietly” in his sleep.

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So Trina and I spent the weekend trying to undo some damage left by vandals to the home we are moving too.

We were about six and half hours into the endeavor the phone rang. On the other end was one of Trina’s cousins who asked if I would have any interest in DJing their daughters back to school dance. I don’t think the sentence got totally out of her mouth when I jumped at the chance to put the equipment away, get a shower and listen to some music. I have discovered I am not overly talented at ditch digging…OYE!

An hour and half later I was “on mic” and spinning all the hits. It was a marathon of High School Musical 2, Hannah Montana and Miley Cirus (who are magically the exact same person) with some Cheetah Girls and a couple Hillary Duff tunes mixed in just to change things up. Admittedly, I have never heard any of those “artists” before and wouldn’t mind if it was a little while before I heard them again but what I hope I never forget is the JOY these kids had and shared with us while we were there.

Over the next two hours we got to meet dozens of kids and their parents as I let individual kids sing along to their requested songs, non who all were so proud to hear how polite or kind or funny or smart their kids were. We weren’t making it up either, those kids were exceptional and I was honored to have been a part of their night.

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