Now for Something a Little Different? The last time I launched a book, I forgot to tell you all until it was already out there gathering dust. Guess what? I’m launching a book! Though my last two books were centered on my experiences living abroad, This is a Love Song is focused on life after…
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A Marriage Story
Once upon a time, on a late Friday afternoon, there was an itty bitty slip of a thing–or as itty bitty as a 5’9″, thirty year old woman could be. She was so teeny that she wasn’t even wearing a bra and there was no jiggling or jangling. It was like Miracle on 14th Street….
2020: In Which I Did All the Things and Yet Nothing at All
So in January 2020, like every other year, I bought myself a spanking new planner. A whole book of crisp, white pages just waiting to be filled in with the mundane and the exciting. Coffees and dinners and deadlines and trips! (We had a lot of travel planned for 2020). There were big birthdays and…
19 Things I’ve Learned in 19 Years of Marriage
If heart disease is the silent killer, passive aggressiveness is the silent marriage killer. It is astonishing how much rage a toothpaste tube or coffee mug on the side of the sink can induce. There really aren’t that many hills worth dying on, choose your trenches wisely, carefully, and slowly. No one listens as much…