My reputation has always been important to me. I am constantly trying to impress people. I will manipulate a situation as much as needed in order to make everything perfect. Once, when my husband and I were dating, I made him leave my apartment in the middle of a snowstorm, refusing him the safety of…
My husband and I were attending a couples’ meeting a while back when the group’s discussion took a turn for the worse. What seemed like a simple topic at first – the division of chores – soon become more complicated as one couple delivered their story. The husband shared how he had taken out the…
Dear Future Husband, I don’t care if you can tell the difference between M&Ms and Skittles. Unless, that is, I’ve been given a sick and twisted Russian Roulette form of trail mix where the colored candies might be chocolate, or they might not be. This is just wrong, and I’ll need your help. But other…
The most difficult and challenging thing I have ever done in my life is to stay married. The second most difficult and challenging thing I have ever done is to have children. Both of these life events have also been filled with extreme joy, peace and happiness as well as horrific sadness, many, many tears…
Fifteen years ago a catastrophic event took the life of golfer Payne Steward. Headed for a Florida tournament, his plane flew beyond its destination for 5 hours before crashing in a South Dakota farm field. This tragedy resulted from a drop in air pressure. As the plane climbed in elevation, air slowly leaked out of…
