What season is it in your part of the world? Here in the Northeast U.S., we are coming to the end of winter, thankfully! Similar to a BMW, we can go from slightly above zero to sixty not in a minute, but definitely over the course of a day. The morning can dawn below freezing, […]
Pulling back the curtain on my marriage
April 12, 2013 By 22 Comments
While I reluctantly admit I am older—in years only, but not in spirit!—I still had never heard of Old School Blogging. Apparently in that internet land practically before time itself, before Twitter and Pinterest and so much other social media, bloggers would write cute and informative posts about themselves so you could get […]
Are you a happy wife?
April 5, 2013 By 17 Comments
photo: Greg Daniel Photography I have an exciting announcement for you, but first I have a confession: I have been very happily married for 30 years. I have struggled in the past with writing that, out of fear I would offend someone who wasn’t happily married, or that they might think I was putting myself on […]
Honesty: What’s love got to do with it?
April 1, 2013 By 21 Comments
Honesty has fallen so far out of favor in our culture that it sits lower than a young rapper’s jeans on his skinny frame. Too many people now believe it is for fools who aren’t enlightened enough to understand the many nuances of truth, rubes who are too ethical to understand the devastating potential it […]
A must-have decision making tool
March 18, 2013 By 30 Comments
My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they are popular; you make them because they’re right. ~Theodore Hesburgh It’s the same old refrain. You have a big decision to make and you just don’t know […]
The circle of life brings big gifts in tiny packages
March 11, 2013 By 38 Comments
I’ve updated this post from a year ago, in honor of our circle of life that will soon be expanding. I look back over the rocky chasms and green fields of the past almost 30 years, and zoom in on those beginning months that were shaping me to be a parent. Yes, we […]
Miss Goody Two Shoes and Party Boy-30 years later
February 26, 2013 By 42 Comments
I never should have been in the bar that night. It was like going into the grocery store when you haven’t eaten all day. Everything looks way better than it really is, and you gravitate towards the stuff that isn’t very good for you. And so it was the night I met my husband. […]
Love by the Book-Part 2
February 18, 2013 By 5 Comments
Welcome to Part Two of Love by the Book! If you missed Part One, you can find it here. If you read it last week and took action, I’d love to have you share in the comments how it helped. In honor of love and marriage and to help grow stronger and more satisfying relationships, […]
Love by the Book-Part 1
February 11, 2013 By 30 Comments
In honor of February, the month of L-O-V-E, I am sharing an updated, two-part, version of a post I wrote last year. I have added resources in the hope that you are more easily able to find more successful ways to communicate with your husband. Did you know that there is an entire […]
Go ahead and make my day: Ask for help!
December 10, 2012 By 22 Comments
Quick! Have you pinned the latest, coolest decorating ideas on Pinterest, bought the ingredients for the most fabulous cookie swap, and bookmarked multiple sites on how to be the most awesome hostess ever? Whoa! Bring that wild ride to a slow stop, and take a few breaths. There’s a good possibility you are trying to […]
