A wise man once told me that in order to keep from worrying about something, you should imagine the worst that could happen and then plan for it. That way, no matter what actually does occur, you will be ready, thus lessening your worry. Wise words indeed. I tend to follow this philosophy with a [...]
Sunday, September 27, 2009
I don’t know if I’ve ever told you before (I’m guessing you may have picked up on this on your own) but I am married to an older man. And by older, I mean that there’s a 17 years difference in age between us. (Gasp!) If someone had told me years ago that I would have [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The CPA had been looking forward to his Labor Day weekend motorcycle ride for weeks. He is getting ready to sell his bike so it was going to be his last hurrah and he wanted to do it right. He was planning an overnight trip down to Southern Virginia where he could just enjoy the [...]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
My husband has been out of town this week for business. I don’t like when he goes because it feels like there’s this huge empty space in the house. It’s so quiet that I leave the TV on before falling asleep so that I don’t have to listen to the silence. For the most part [...]
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
It’s been two whole years since we said our “I do’s” and agreed to spend our lives together. I honestly don’t know where the time has gone. It has been simply amazing. Yes, I know that marriage is hard work, but it doesn’t really feel like it’s been hard. There have been times of compromise of [...]
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The CPA and I had been dating for a while when we got engaged. Because of this, we felt that we knew each other pretty well. The more I think about it, this seems to be the nature of relationships – when you’re with someone for a while, you begin to think you know all [...]
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
How do you know when you should get married? This has always been a difficult question for me, which might explain why it took so long for me to tie the knot with someone. Even now when I’m the one who is asked by friends, I struggle with the answer. I remember my years spent [...]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A recent post by my Internet friend Jill got me thinking about the age-old question: can you be friends with your ex? Actually, I began thinking about this long before her post. In fact, I can remember a conversation that the CPA and I had before we got married. A conversation that included me saying [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
I gave a talk the other day in front of my congregation at church. The topic I had been given was “Honoring Sacred Things.” This was a pretty broad subject matter and I had to figure out what specific things I wanted to cover. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The CPA and I have a problem. It’s becoming a serious issue, too, and it’s not one that I knew about before we were married. And trust me – we did all that we could to unearth potential land mines before we walked down the aisle. We read books about relationships, we asked each other questions covering [...]
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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