Like most of us, I have tended to live for the next. The next season. The next accomplishment. The next stage. I am learning, slowly, to accept the now. I don’t like the now, to be honest. I don’t like its messy. I don’t like all the flaws I see in it (and in...
Category: Family & Marriage
Fifteen Years
This week, Eric and I celebrate fifteen years of marriage. We dated for sixteen months. We were friends for about eighteen months before that. I’ve known him for nearly as long as I lived without knowing him. And y’all, he’s still just my favorite. Fifteen Years … by the Numbers One cast (Megan’s arm)...
The Trenches of Motherhood
“the trenches of motherhood (n): the stage of parenting in which your children are preschool aged or younger; a 5+ year blur. I don’t know who first used this term in my presence. I think it was my friend Denae. We both had twins (hers are two years older than mine), and when I’d...
How to Ask Hard Questions
So we all know we need deal with hard questions. But what about when you have to ask hard questions? Why doesn’t anyone have a crash course on how to ask hard questions in a helpful way to someone else? A few weeks back on a Friday evening when my mother-in-law had our kids...
I Disagree: Fiver Parties
So I’m a highly opinionated person. Shocker, I know. And I tend not to share all my thoughts online because, well, wisdom says not to. But sometimes, I think it’s a good idea to share a different perspective than what I see most places. Social media can easily become an echo chamber for what...