I usually write about life as a married woman, but today I want to reflect on some things I learned when I was still swimming in the dating pool. I remember what it was like. More than anything as a single woman, I wanted to be pursued by a guy. I wanted to get asked…
I had many things on my list to happen in 2010, but buying a house was not one of them. My husband and I fully expected to start our lives together in an apartment, which we did for the first seven months of our marriage: in a little shoebox apartment with a vintage claw foot…
This month my husband and I will celebrate a milestone—anniversary number one, a year that has been rich with new beginnings and filled with “firsts,” getting married, becoming homeowners, moving to another state, launching new careers, and embarking on this crazy, beautiful, blessed journey together! Before we got married, Zach and I realized that the…
Many couples say that the bedroom is the one room in the house where most of the arguments take place. But in our marriage, the room where tension boils over (at least, on my part!) is the kitchen. In the early months of married life, I struggled with my new responsibility of kitchen duties, not…
In our American culture of drive-through coffee, instant Twitter feeds, and video on demand, we prize immediacy. We can check our email on our phone as soon as it hits our inbox, we can grab lunch to-go at the pick-up window, and download live-streaming news with the click of a button. We are a nation…
