By Shelby Spear of shelbyspear.com It’s official. My guy will go to any extreme to get some shizzle. I came home from a six day vacation without him to a house that had been primped, primed, touched up and tinkered with. All in the form of a completed twenty-seven item honey-do […]
Sex and Relationships
Samara in Tinderland: One Woman’s Adventures in Online Dating
By Samara of A Buick in the Land of Lexus Tinder – lowering sexual standards since 2012. Tinder is the fast food of online dating – quick, cheap, and temporarily curbs your hunger. Although I’m sure people have met their significant others on Tinder – just given the sheer quantity […]
Divorce Is a Detour
You may not know where your detour is headed, and the road may be terrifying at times, but that’s OK. When my life took a “detour” at 18 years old, I coined myself a “Detourist.” My detour was a decade full of surgeries and medical crises when a coma my senior year […]
This Friendship Is Not All We Want But More Than Enough
By Christine Organ of christineorgan.com I cried this morning. I cried for no reason and for all the reasons. Sometimes that happens. I had been reading through this essay that I will read on Jennifer Scharf’s podcast later today. I wanted to practice reading through it. But also, I wanted to remember. I […]
Dear Kids: This is What to Look for in a Life Partner
By Liv of Live By Surprise A letter to my children about love: I want all three of you to know what love is. I hope that you never have the opportunity to learn from experience what it isn’t. My wish for you is that you find a life partner […]
What Do Men REALLY Want for Father’s Day?
By Heather LeRoss of Tipsy Tiaras With (the hell that was) Mother’s Day still fresh in my mind and Father’s Day looming, I began to wonder what my husband wanted for Father’s Day. Our situation is a bit different in that this is our second marriage and we both have […]
Wait A Minute, Where Did I Go? (Learning That I am Enough)
By Quenby Schuyler of Q’s Kitchen I am sitting in the bathroom after a big blowout with my husband. Somewhere between the baby, the blowout, and this bathroom it occurred to me that I may have lost myself. The lack of sleep, the crusted clothing covered in spit-up, my mommy muffin […]
Why My Husband and I Have Separate Date Nights
By Tonilyn Hornung of tonilynhornung.com I never understood makeover shows. I’d watch these frumpy women get unfrumpted and think, How did they let that happen? Couldn’t they just brush their hair, put on some lipstick, and buy some jeans that fit? I don’t get it. I get it now. Me practicing […]