Love in Marriage: 365 Reasons I Love My Husband — I think I first did a Love in Marriage writing project about 12 years ago. I remember wanting to start a daily writing habit through a blog, but I wasn’t certain what that would look like or involve. What I do remember is saying to David on either December 30…

Love in Marriage: 365 Reasons I Love My Husband — In my younger days, when I could eat anything I wanted and not consider the calorie consequences, I had a regular rotation of favorite sweet and salty treats I kept on hand in my cozy one-bedroom Boston apartment for when I was reading or writing or watching a favorite movie…

Love in Marriage: 365 Reasons I Love My Husband — There are days, like today, when my mind works a lot harder than my body. There is too much on the To Do list, there are too many details I’m trying to keep track of, there are too many plates spinning in the air and I’m pretty certain if I…

Love in Marriage: 365 Reasons I Love My Husband — Do you have chores neither you nor your spouse prefer and therefore sometimes tend to ignore? Until you can’t. We have a few of them: cleaning out the fridge (though that tends to happen weekly because of trash day), scooping out the cat’s litter box, folding the clean laundry, and…

Love in Marriage: 365 Reasons I Love My Husband — If I have learned little else over the years, it is that marriage, like life, is made up of a thousand minor actions we take each day; some will be selfless and others will be selfish. because marriage is not just one moment, it is thousands of them, building our…

Love in Marriage: 365 Reasons I Love my Husband — It’s midway through the second-to-last-month of the year, Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away, and I am involved in a Jon-Acuff-related challenge in which I am supposed to show up and write at least 100 words each day (I started this challenge on October 2 with my Curating a…

Curating a Creative Life — Tuesday Tidbits — If you’ve kept up with this series, I hope you feel inspired and encouraged to boldly pursue the creative life you are meant to live. Remember, living a creative life isn’t about being a writer or musician or artist. Instead, it’s about opening yourself up to the sacred moments our…

Curating a Creative Life — Monday Music — Other than Thanksgiving, the arrival of November means one thing for me — 50 thousand words. November 1 is the first day of National Novel Writing Month, NaNo for short, where my goal is to write approximately 1667 words a day and complete a novel by the end of the…

Curating a Creative Life — Sunday Sabbath — Have you noticed that when a day or a week has included more things for which we did not plan — more work, more emergencies, more obstacles, more stress, more, well, life — we tend to try and squeeze even more into that day or that week? Not more of…