I’ve never been one to enjoy taking risks. Sure there are risks I have made myself take that worked out well, but I’m not one of those people who thrive on it. You know the type I’m talking about, don’t you? They’ll jump out and start a new career, up and move to another city…
I wasn’t being nosy. I didn’t even ask. In fact, it started with a casual conversation about our dogs, and somehow we got all the way around to his admission, “Well, I used to have a family.” In the course of seven brief minutes, in the hospital corridor, this complete stranger unveiled pieces of his…
We writers are pretty much always on an obsessive search-and-destroy mission for unnecessary words in our work (like “pretty much”). We look for typos, for passive language, for grammatical errors that make us look silly. And we look for echoes, pet words that crop up everywhere because, well, they are our pet words. Heaven forbid…
“Although we talked about our money expectations a little before we got married,” Tim says, “we just didn’t have a good long-term plan. So after we married, I tried to figure it out.” “When you both have the same expectations,” Hannah says, “it’s amazing what you can do. We just don’t fight about money anymore.”…
It was there, in the grocery store, standing half way down the aisle in front of several hundred jars of peanut butter, that I realized something profound about marriage. Despite being a lifelong fan of crunchy peanut butter, I found myself reaching for a large jar marked “smooth and creamy”. Realizing what I was doing,…
