Response to Gerald Rogers
My response is long overdue to a post that received wide attention a few months ago, “Beautiful advice from a divorced man after 16 years of marriage”...
View ArticleGod answered my prayers
Sometimes I wonder if God heard my prayers before I actually accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Today I was on Facebook and on the right column it showed names of people who “I might know.” I...
View ArticleOpposites
For many years now, I’ve noticed that my husband and I are “opposites.” For example, he’s an “extravert” and I’m an “introvert.” This morning, while in the bathroom, I noticed the towels we hung after...
View ArticleThe 29 things I love about my husband
My husband and I will be celebrating our 29th wedding anniversary in two days (November 24th) so I thought it would be fitting to share 29 things that I love about him (they’re not in any particular...
View ArticleWords from a “toe”
I have to admit that for most of my marriage I competed with my husband. Even though we were supposed to be a “team” and people saw us as a team, we really were not a team. It wasn’t until a couple...
View ArticleThe guy
As a young teenager I made a list of the characteristics I wanted in a future husband—he had to love me for who I was, he had to be a family man, a good provider, a hard worker, and he had to be 5’7”...
View ArticleMy worst run ever!
A couple nights ago I was in a half marathon. It was part of a “coast to coast” event where the first leg of the competition was to run a half marathon in Disneyland, California then the second part,...
View Article30th Anniversary
It’s about 12:30 am and I just realized that it’s now November 24th and it’s my 30th wedding anniversary. Who would have thought that the marriage of two 19-year-olds would last this long? I just can’t...
View Article“One Thing” For All Marriages
I’ve been married for almost 32 years. There was a time when I didn’t think we would celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary. My marriage had a rough start. Not only were we teenagers when we got...
View ArticleThe Three Biggest Things I’ve Learned from Being Married for 33 Years
Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary. We’ve come so far considering we could have been a “statistic” based on the factors we had: only teenagers when we married, we only...
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