When Marriage Restores: For Better or For Worse Blog Series
Dennis Skley This part of my series has hit my heart particularly hard. I cried through this anonymous post and was was able to share my own story with this other woman. I’ve long wanted to share my...
View ArticleFor Better or For Worse: Anonymous Post on Sex and Marriage
*This is an anonymous post about a wedding night from a close friend of mine* “For you, the person who waits, your wedding day and night will be everything: every Hallmark card, every romance novel,...
View ArticleThe House We’ve Built: A Marriage That Lasts
We are in a season of life where we are holding on with dear life to our sanity. We bought a house. I’m writing a book. We have two toddlers in diapers. There are some days where I think, “This isn’t...
View ArticleWhen the Directions Might Be Wrong: On Sex and Purity Culture
When The Directions Might Be Wrong Karissa and I share more than a few things in common. We both grew up in Thailand, separated only by a decade and a few hundred miles. She is a writer and educator,...
View ArticleBlog Hop: What I’m Writing
Bronwyn Lea tagged me last week in a blog hop on the writing process. I’m excited to share what I’m working on and tag a few other people to participate. 1) What am I writing or working on? I’m...
View ArticleA Love Story: The First Strand of A Thousand
“That way we shall create a thousand strands, great and small, that will link us together. Then we shall be so close that it would be impossible — unthinkable — for either of us to suppose that we...
View ArticleJuly: What I’m Into or A Much Needed Vacation
This morning my close friend Kim had her baby, little Whitcomb, and he is safe and sound, and somehow that makes everything seem a little more right in the world. We just arrived back from Sequoia...
View ArticleAn Umbrella Taught Me About Motherhood
As a rule, I do not use umbrellas. Umbrellas are for gorgeous people straddling the white lines in the parking lot. I do not use umbrellas also because I can never find an umbrella. Never. Never have...
View ArticleMoney Doesn’t Buy Marital Bliss
Weddings are expensive—scrap that—weddings can put you underwater and even into debt. A national survey at theKnot.com showed that the average cost of a wedding is now a hefty $29,858. That seems...
View ArticleA Few Years Later
Almost four years ago, I was pregnant with my first child, walking down an elementary hallway streaked with dirt, leading a classroom of 32 children like a mama duck: babies waddling behind, all in a...
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