It didn’t take much effort for me to gain what I label the “newlywed 20.” What’s that exactly? Well, that would be the 20 pounds I packed on in my first four months of marriage. No joke. Yep, I was one of those women who after successfully avoiding the freshman 15 in college, wasn’t so…
Ashleigh Slater
During our first few years of marriage, my husband Ted’s favorite late night companion was the website Free Republic. Free what? Free Republic. That would be an online gathering place for the politically conservative to discuss the latest in politics. You see, prior to our union, freeping – as it’s called – was Ted’s go-to,…
It was a fairly simple activity. At least, it should have been. Our task? To remember back to the early days of our relationship and share with our church small group the name of “our song” at the time. The message from our pastor that week had been on marriage. So our discussion that evening…
You could say my husband Ted, at times, is a Christian fatalist. Oh, not the type who eventually goes agnostic, as one writer asserts can happen, but the happy sort. The kind who insists that his Type-A prone bride anticipate something will inevitably go wrong at their wedding…and does it all with a smile and…
