Marriage

My friend recommended this book, Little Disasters by Randall Klein, and I knew she wouldn’t steer me wrong. I listened via Audible and was captivated by the way the story was told, jumping back and forth between different time periods, slowly revealing how these two couples’ relationships became intertwined. I appreciate how the author allowed us to […]

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Greetings and welcome to this stop on the Apart at the Seams Book Tour! This is my seventh time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch, A Gift of Time, The Sound of Hope, The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption, and Measure of Love. For those of you not familiar with […]

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One of my favorite movies, The Family Man, a modern-day It’s a Wonderful Life, gives the main character a glimpse if what his life would be like if he was married to his college sweetheart, with kids, living in a house in New Jersey, verses he “real” life as a single, wealthy business man, who lives […]

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Detour

by Kathy on December 3, 2013 · 3 comments

in Coping, Grief, Journey, Just Write, Life, Loss, Love, Marriage, Writing

We were running a bit late, as we’d stayed home long enough for me to register her for a park district sports class. If we didn’t do it right at 9:00 a.m., she might not have gotten a spot. As we turned right off of our street, habitually following our daily route to her preschool, […]

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“You’ll just know…” When you are in love. When you’ve found the one. When you are in labor. When you are done trying to have children. When the time is right. That’s what I have been told throughout my life. But it has rarely been my experience. I choose to love my husband, I didn’t […]

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Welcome to my first post as part of Melissa Ford’s new Gonna Read it Anyway Book Club, a.k.a. the GRAB(ook) Club! One of the things I love about Mel’s latest brain-child is the relatively simple format. Though I really enjoyed my past experiences participating in online book clubs and book tours, they can be very time-consuming. With […]

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