Marriage

My Christmas Holiday Journal - Days 6 & 7

January 3, 2025

We celebrate our Christmas and then have a recovery day.

Women's work is never done (especially during the holidays)

December 3, 2021

Are you starting to feel the stress of the season yet? Are you feeling all the things that you need to do (organize, plan, cook, etc.) to make this a good holiday season for your family? Why do women & especially mothers continue to do this work? How did we arrive here? What are possible solutions?

Looking forward to a real couch and our future

February 18, 2021

We don't own a couch. We haven't had a couch for almost 6 years.

It's not the same, so now what? (an anniversary post, part 2)

August 15, 2019

This is the kind of marriage I celebrate on our 23rd anniversary. One that grows and changes. Where a life is built, and children are raised, dreams are cast and pursued, and sometimes abandoned.

It's not the same, so now what? (an anniversary post, part 1)

August 13, 2019

Hopeful energy, inspired by dreaming about our future, that was in short supply for those post-crisis years in our marriage. Even though realizing previous dreams had cracked open our marriage and brought about significant pain in our relationship, I missed having them.

What's next? Aiming for a career.

February 14, 2019

Following the trail of curiosity was good for the past season. A season of healing and recovery. It was all I could give. But now I'm ready to actively chart this process. I am thinking about where I want to be in ten years, twenty years, and how I'm going to get there.