What Did and Didn’t Last

It’s been twenty years since you undid the bobby pins from my updo, twenty years since we said a couple I Do’s to promises we couldn’t really keep yet—for worse, for poorer, in sickness, til death—all in faith that everything we had right then would last. But packaged back in our rental house on LelandContinue reading “What Did and Didn’t Last”

Stretch, bend, snap and bind: like-mindedness and marriage and a few other meandering thoughts

My husband is playing the guitar on the other side of the room, and I keep opening and closing browser tabs trying to decide what I have to say here right now or whether I have anything to say at all, or whether to close the whole thing down and play Candy Crush. I’ve almostContinue reading “Stretch, bend, snap and bind: like-mindedness and marriage and a few other meandering thoughts”

After the Storm: A Better Love Story

Tonight as I wrapped Christmas presents for our family, I watched Serendipity, a movie in which two characters, John and Sarah, meet one Christmas, separate and then spend the majority of the movie looking for each other whilst being engaged to be married to other people.  They chase fate and destiny in order to overcomeContinue reading “After the Storm: A Better Love Story”