Lasting Love And Dirty Dishes
byThe other day as my husband was headed to work, he called back to me in the kitchen that I shouldn’t use the dishwasher….
The other day as my husband was headed to work, he called back to me in the kitchen that I shouldn’t use the dishwasher….
When I think about how I want to be remembered when my life is over, I usually think about how I want to be…
A relative from my husband’s side of the family recently posted a funny but somewhat inappropriate meme. In my view, it was harmless fun….
“There is no such thing as a dumb question,” my favorite professor, Peter Kreeft, often told his students. With him, you felt that you…
“Next I will say, ‘If your faith makes you brave, please stand before the altar to make your vows,’” the priest said to…
So, here I am—starting over, stepping over, stepping through. I’ve come to a crossroads and life is changing, shifting, moving—again. The last nine years…
Rather bored one night, I decided to call my youngest brother. As humbling as it is to admit, that evening I wasn’t calling so…
I’m a terribly impatient person and I don’t look for opportunities to delay gratification. But over the last six years and several seasons of…
It was one of my worst fears before getting married: what if we fell out of love? What if we stopped “fighting for each…
I was standing in my closet a few weeks ago when I turned to my husband and asked him the dreaded question: “Does this…
Darren had already said those three words that meant so much to me: “I love you.” But I was still hesitant. And on the…
“Who in your life do you admire most? And why?” I looked at the question in the writing exercise and racked my brain. As…
A few years ago, six months pregnant with my first child, I was cleaning out a spare room that my husband and I planned…
I have been in the military for the past nine years. And in just a few more weeks, my identity in the military will…
“Don’t sweat the small stuff,” the saying goes, “and it’s all small stuff.” I love the sentiment behind that and it’s often true. But…
A few years ago I was in the lowest place I’d ever been. Motherhood was crushing me, I worried constantly about the future,…
With the ten-year high-school reunion right around the corner, I find myself reminiscing about the past. I think about the memories made and the…
I don’t remember a lot growing up, but some of the most memorable moments I have as a child are from when my mother…
It was just a few minutes after midnight when I heard a knock on my apartment door. I instinctively jumped before rising quietly to…
This past year, first year post school, has been a real struggle for many of the people I love, including myself. And it has…