by Darlene Schacht | Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Note from Darlene… In case you’ve been wondering what’s going on with all of the new writers on the blog, I thought maybe today would be a good time to pause and fill you in. Rather than having days on and days off, I decided to add a few monthly...
by Matthew L. Jacobson | Feb 19, 2014 | Marriage
Age 31 arrived and with it, the cold fingers of early winter tightened their slow, numbing grip on the last week of October in Portland, Oregon. Happy Birthday, but not really. Winter is colder when you’re alone and don’t want to be. “It is not good for a man to be...
by Guest Contributor | Feb 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
As usual, Michael went out of his way to make Valentine’s Day a special event for me. He’s romantic that way. Knowing how busy the restaurants are on the 14th, he took me out for lunch a few days earlier. We enjoyed chips and salsa at our favorite...
by Ashleigh Slater | Feb 17, 2014 | Marriage
It was during a Wednesday night episode of American Idol that Dorothy Jane took her first glimpse of this world. This inaugural look was filled with the sights and sounds of a hospital delivery room nestled in the chilly suburbs of Chicago. Our home away from home...
by Ruth Schwenk | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Almost seventeen years ago my husband chose to begin pursuing me with a prank phone call. It’s not how a couple usually meets, but it’s how we met. We were both college students at the Moody Bible Institute, living in one of the greatest cities in the...
