Is Facebook the new “Keeping Up With The Joneses” for marriage? We scroll through our Facebook feed and the next thing you know you want to go to Hawaii like your friends Homer and Beatrice. But what if your husband doesn’t want to go to Hawaii? Or you see a couple at Disneyland wearing matching […]
I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw it. It was big. It was beautiful. I wanted it. I started to feel like my life wasn’t full without it. And what was this thing I had to have in order to feel happy? Are you ready for this? A kitchen. Has that ever happened to […]
I walked into my kitchen, saw a pile of dirty dishes and thought… He [my husband] doesn’t love me. After 34 years of being in a devoted and faithful marriage, and a kitchen with dirty dishes turns me into an insecure high school girl who just found out her boyfriend forgot their three-month anniversary. What […]
I could hear the angst in her voice. “Mom, we have a dilemma. We are not sure what to do.” I listened to her talk with all the angles around a serious decision she and her husband needed to make. I asked the question I always ask, “What does your husband think?” He, being a […]
This week you’re in for a treat. This is another guest blog post written by my husband, Mike Williams. Mike has been the children’s pastor at Shepherd Church for over 13 years. I believe in happy home comings. Do you? Read this sincere, honest, and telling story… Coming Home – by Pastor Mike Williams I […]
As we routinely send our loved ones off, we usually don’t know when our last goodbye will be. We shake the hand of a loyal friend, we drop the kids off at school, we wave to our spouse as we pass in the driveway. What if that were our last goodbye? Did we communicate how […]
I’m living with two men right now. There is a subwoofer in my living room, gas fumes seep into the house from the motorcycle project, and dirt piles are in my backyard. I love men…I really do. No sarcasm there, I promise. When we as women can learn to appreciate men, for well, just being […]
I was holding my grandson and walking around. I wanted to see what he would do when I walked over to the mirror allowing him to see his reflection. Do you know what he did? Cry? No. Laugh? No. Scream? No. I’ve done all of those, by the way, after looking in a mirror. No, […]
I hate goodbyes. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. Saying bon voyage is painful. I’m sitting in an airport in Texas waiting for my flight home. I just said goodbye to my 3-month-old grandson. Do you wanna talk about painful? I didn’t want to let him go. Ever. And I had to […]
“I was the best mother I knew how to be,” said Sue Klebold on a recent TV interview. Sue Klebold, mother of Dylan Klebold, Columbine shooter, is speaking out after seventeen years since that fatal day on April 20, 1999. We all watched in horror and asked ourselves, “How could this happen?” How does a […]
