It was early autumn. The leaves on the trees were golden as the afternoon sun slid behind the skyscrapers on my urban college campus. I stood at my professor’s car feeling alive. After a stimulating class discussion, I discovered another layer of thought with my fellow students. As I helped my professor with her bags,…
One of the great challenges of sexual fulfillment in the twenty-first century is that there’s so little time and energy left over to enjoy sex. I get sympathetic laughs in my talks whenever I mention “hotel sex.” Two of the main reasons hotel sex (or vacation sex) creates such a different experience are time and…
Every marriage has some kind of love story behind it. My husband’s and mine began in college, like many. This year, we celebrated our fifteen year wedding anniversary. Our story is one that only God could have written. Sharing it here, I hope to celebrate our love and glorify our heavenly Father. Mike and I…
I met Max and Shirley during my freshman year of college. It was love from the beginning of our unusual friendship. Away from home for the first time, I connected with this seventy-plus-year-old married couple who served food and washed dishes in my college cafeteria. Maybe it was partly because that year, my own grandma…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about romantic places. What’s the most romantic place you’ve ever been? My husband and I just got back from ten extraordinary days in Italy. It’s a trip that’s been on our bucket list for years, and we finally got to go, just the two of us. Italy is, quite…
As of today, I have been married for thirteen years. On that hot, sticky Florida summer day when I got married, I was just twenty years old, my husband was twenty-one, and we were so young and green and idealistic and shiny that I’m surprised more people didn’t pat us on the head condescendingly. (Bless…