I wasn’t a particularly bad kid. I mean, I snuck under the bed and opened all my birthday presents before the party, I convinced my sisters they were adopted, and I got punished ten times one night for doing the same thing, but that was no reason for my own body to turn against me. At… Read More What a Perfectionist Can Learn From a Bald 4-Year-Old Girl
“You’re beautiful,” he whispered. Stretch marks race across my tightening skin, my wedding ring is in a drawer due to involuntary swelling fingers, and those extra 25 pounds have begun to give my face that “gathering-nuts-to-prepare-for-winter” look. Eight months into marriage and 34 weeks pregnant, my winter-white body is a long ways from the tanned,… Read More Pregnancy, Pain, And My Perfect Husband
Sometimes we get caught up in the rubble of life. Business, statistics, facts, budgets, to-do lists, charts, metrics, calendars . . . At least, I do. Even I–idealist, dreamer, and hopeless romantic–sometimes I forget to see the poetry in these lives we live. I see hard lines, and black and white, but forget there’s soft… Read More Remember the Romance of Life
Chipped, Cracked and Broken. So, I don’t share many of my songs, but when I discovered this rough and vulnerable voice memo from last year, I felt nostalgic about when I was still living at home. **Forgive the glitches, okay? It’s from the heart, and sometimes the heart isn’t in tune . . . At that time,… Read More Chipped, Cracked, & Broken: A Song
“You’ve had enough,” I playfully tugged the bag of Skittles out of Elisha’s hand, and sat back on the pillows to finish our movie. “What was that about?” I glanced over, shocked to see Elisha’s mortified face. What on earth was wrong? “Katie, give me back my skittles.” “Are you kidding? You’ve already had more than… Read More Skittles: Our First Fight
I’m a new wife. Very new. So why am I writing about wife-hood, when there are so many more qualified women to share? Women who have stood by their husbands through storms and walked with their husbands through hell, women who have supported their men and made them great, women who have devoted their lives to… Read More Does the “Honeymoon Stage” Leave Us, or Do We Leave the “Honeymoon Stage?”
We might as well face it, long-distance relationships are tough. However, there is good news. Long-distance relationships can massively strengthen and deepen the bond you and your partner have. So, before you go around saying someone is “geographically undesirable,” here’s five lessons my long-distance relationship taught me (and, if we’re honest here, my husband was desirable regardless of… Read More 5 Things I Learned in Our Long-Distance Relationship
Good news. The Tale Of My First Love, did not END in a breakup… “Just Friends” Soon after ending things, Elisha and I entered “real” relationships where we began to experience the security, happiness, and good vibes that one’s notorious other (usually) gives. We bumped shoulders a couple times, but we didn’t talk much, and it was never… Read More I’m Getting Married!!!
Childhood Crush I pinched my freckled nose tight and peered under the trampoline at a pair of tan legs grounded in red, white, and blue skate shoes. “I like that boy,” I whispered to my 7-year-old sister from the safety of my hideout. “I like him too,” she smiled. “His name is Pete.” “No, like, I like-like him,” I… Read More The Tale of My First Love
There will always be someone who will see the problems. There will always be someone who will tell you “you’ll fail.” There will always be someone who will make it their goal to drag you down with them to a life of mediocrity, and defeat, and hopelessness. That’s all fine and good . . .… Read More The Quickest Way To Change Your Life