
The One Thing Your Spouse Cannot Do
It had been a long week and I was tired from all the work involved with holiday preparations. In my youthful naivete I used to think...


Built in Friend
One of my earliest childhood recollections is the comforting feeling of climbing into my canopy bed. I’d slide under the white eyelet...


Listen up
Did you know that 90 percent of marriage is spent calling out, “Whaaaat” from the other room? (Did you also know you can’t believe...


Foul Ball!
Ask anyone in my family a fun fact about me and they would say, “Kristen thinks sporting events are really social events that just...


The Importance of a Smellfie
There were eight of us seated around the table at the fancy banquet. As we passed the water pitcher and placed the linen napkins...


The Swimming Suit
I looked out the plane window in awe at the most spectacular colors of blue that the ocean had to offer. Kristen and I were headed to a...


Working Out!
I rolled out of bed and staggered to the bathroom to get the day started. Every square inch of my body hurt – or so it seemed. What had...


Fixer-Upper
The fighting got more intense and began happening more frequently than ever before. The yelling, arguing, cursing, finger-pointing and...


Moviephone
George has just discovered that his fiancé Susan has gone to the movies with his friends Jerry and Elaine (yes, I’m talking about a...


Couples that Play together Stay together
On this particular day, there were more of them than usual. In fact, I had never seen so many! Maybe it was the sudden and unexpected...