February 18th, 2011

Virtual Breakfast

I was up early this morning, but somehow managed to get distracted by work and work and a little more work. I wound up so very badly distracted that I was late getting around to some of my other morning tasks.

Like breakfast for the man.

“Wait!” I wound up shouting to him as he headed out the door for work, “Your toast hasn’t popped up yet!”

He couldn’t wait.

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October 28th, 2010

My New Favorite Picture

This guy is going places. I’m just glad I’m along for the ride.

January 19th, 2010

When You’ve Tried Everything

When times are tough and we make sacrificial efforts to improve our marriages, it can be tempting to look for instant results. After all, these kinds of heroic efforts cost us plenty in terms of time, effort and ego …

Read my latest marriage column at Fathers for Good today:

When You’ve Tried Everything

January 12th, 2010

I Resolve …

January is a time for making resolutions for our finances, health, diet or other ways to improve ourselves in the next 365 days. But have you ever considered resolving to improve your marriage?

You can read my latest marriage column at Fathers for Good:

I Resolve … to Improve My Marriage

November 23rd, 2009

Grace at Thanksgiving

You can read about my first “married” Thanksgiving in my Husband & Wife column at Fathers for Good this week:

Grace at Thanksgiving

November 2nd, 2009

Husbands and Wives

A cool project I have been working on is a series of columns on marriage for the Knights of Columbus site Fathers For Good.

You can read the first in the series there today, about the complementarity of the sexes: Where Softness and Firmness Meet

July 26th, 2009

Big News

My husband, he is vacuuming.

Vacuuming.

It’s a shop vac of course. And he’s using it in our living room which he has stripped bare of all its contents in anticipation of sanding and refinishing the floors in the next 3 days.

But it’s vacuuming nonetheless. And my husband is doing it. And beggars can’t be choosers now, can we?

July 2nd, 2009

Still Crazy

After 15 years.

I love you, Dan.

Thank God for you.