I didn't have it in me to mow, my wife called off the gym, and I did two small things instead — a vacuum that took ten minutes and a workbench I can finally see the top of.
Tag: Marriage
Lunch and Honesty
I've been circling the same conclusion about my year for months — walks, notes, a mid-year review I never opened. My wife got there over a shared pizza.
Her Chopsaw
My wife had a chopsaw and knew how to use it. I didn't. Twenty-some years later I build most of what needs building around here, and I still can't name one thing I've taught her back.
Flowering Herbs
There was a Bath & Body Works fragrance in the nineties called Flowering Herbs. My wife was given a bottle of it in 1994, four years before I met her. She was still wearing it in 1998, the summer we got together — we both turned twenty that year, she's two and a half months … Continue reading Flowering Herbs
The Little Things She Remembers: Gratitude Sunday and 27 Years of Small Holy Moments
Day 32 of the 7-40 ChallengeSunday, February 1, 2026Gratitude Sunday - The Thank You Campaign I'm taking every Sunday this year as an opportunity to express gratitude for a person, situation, or memory that has influenced me in a positive way. Today's subject: my beautiful bride. The Memory I Forgot We were driving to lunch … Continue reading The Little Things She Remembers: Gratitude Sunday and 27 Years of Small Holy Moments

