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 […]
When the April Atlantic trumps the urgent
April 16, 2012 By 23 Comments
Sometimes we get so busy we forget to take our own advice. We lose sight of the strong, silent important amidst the loud, clamoring urgent. Take this past weekend, for example. I visited my dear hubbie at the modest apartment he’s renting while he’s away at his current work assignment. Like all of […]
Love by the Book
February 27, 2012 By 24 Comments
Did you know that there is an entire marriage manual encapsulated within a mere paragraph of a book? Who knew? I suspect lots of folks, and I am just late to the party. In the past few years, I have read these words more times than I can count, and then the realization hit me-woke […]
He’s a keeper
November 10, 2011 By 15 Comments
I ask your indulgence today while I celebrate my dear hubbie, as it is his birthday. We joke about how we would have not given each other the time of day in high school if we knew each other then because he was a party boy and I was a goody two shoes girl. However, […]
Got 5 minutes? It’s the absolute best Christmas gift idea ever
October 10, 2011 By 5 Comments
I’m going to let you in on a secret from the photography business: If you can get the clients to cry, they’ll buy. I apologize if that sounds crass, but the philosophy behind it is actually pretty sound. If we see an image of ourselves, our children, our spouse or our family which captures […]
