Last winter, my husband caught a cold, which ultimately lead to a shift in my perspective. At first, I was slightly irritated that he’d diligently worked all week with a wracking cough, but then decided to cancel our weekend Valentine’s Day plans because he suddenly needed to rest. We spent two days watching television on…
How do we know we’ve married the right person? Especially after the honeymoon and this person’s flaws, bad habits, and selfishness all seem to come out of nowhere? This woman, who was the vision of an angel on the wedding day seems to have transformed into a nagging, implacable woman who never is happy. Or…
During this past week I was going through some slides that my dad had taken whilst he and my mom were living in Nigeria. My mom and dad had gone out there, from South Africa, to work as missionaries with the Sudan United Mission in the early 1960’s. In fact, I was born in Nigeria…
When Ted and I got married, he had a very specific way he liked his T-shirts folded. That would be front side out. The rationale being that he could easily see from the closet shelf which T-shirt he was grabbing. He didn’t need to unfold them in order to figure out if he’d correctly pulled…
Several years ago my sister-in-law returned from a trip with matching jackets for my husband and me. When we tried on the army green fleece jackets, we couldn’t help but laugh at our reflection in the mirror. While it was cute for us to dress alike, it was obvious that the jacket looked better on…
