Good Links (The Found Edition)
Here in the Boston Mountains, spring has come to thaw the good earth and the weeds have begun their sprouting. They grow fast, the weeds, the first green things of the season. There are daffodil shoots...
View ArticleOn Cigarette Ashes, Magnolia Blossoms, and Driver-Side Doors
I. This is not so much a piece about marriage as it is about certainty, about propositional truth. In a certain sense, this is a piece about driver-side doors. II. At the wise old age of eighteen, I...
View ArticleMarriage Letters: On Co-Laboring
On the first Monday of the month, Amber and I write letters to each other. Follow this link to read hers. This month’s topic is “On Co-Laboring.” ***** Dear Amber, Co-labor–it’s such a taxing word;...
View Article15 Things You Might Not Care To Know About Our Dating Years, But Here You Are...
Amber and I are approaching the Crystal Anniversary, and if I were the Birk-wearing, emu raising, New Age sort often found in these-here Ozarks, this might serve as a sort of mystical omen. And though...
View Article15 Marriage Lessons: A Year by Year List (Part 1)
In honor of nearly 15 years of marriage, I’m sharing a series of “15 reflections” taking different forms. You can read the first list here (15 Things You Might Not Care to Know About Our Dating Years)....
View ArticleMarriage Letter: On Health And Wholeness
Today, Amber and I are resetting the Marriage Letters series. Read here, then follow over to her blog for her Marriage Letter. ***** Dear Amber, To be healthy and whole—what does it mean? Is it an...
View ArticleMarriage Letter: What You Call Holy
On the first Monday of each month, Amber and I are writing marriage letters to each other. Sure, there are qualified experts who’ve written well about marriage, but we’re writing into our marriage....
View ArticleAbsence Makes the Heart Grow: A Marriage Letter
On the first Monday of each month, Amber and I are writing marriage letters to each other. Sure, there are qualified experts who’ve written well about marriage, but we’re writing into our marriage....
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Marriage Letters: On New Seasons
On the first Monday of each month, Amber and I are writing marriage letters to each other. Sure, there are qualified experts who’ve written well about marriage, but we’re writing into our marriage....
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Marriage Letters: The Things That are Yours
On the first Monday of each month, Amber and I are writing marriage letters to each other. Sure, there are qualified experts who’ve written well about marriage, but we’re writing into our marriage....
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Marriage Letters: On Home
Next month, Amber’s first book, Wild in the Hollow, hits the shelves. It explores a sort of coming of age, a discovery of what it means to be home. In celebration of her book, we’re writing Marriage...
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Marriage Letters: The Quickening Moments
Dear Amber, There are moments in marriage where all things quicken, where best or worst moments siphon out the essence of togetherness. In those moments, we’re brought to the edge of joy or pain, hope...
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License to Drive (A Marriage Letter)
Today, Amber and I reached our 16th year of marriage. (Friday the 13th? Don’t worry. I don’t believe in omens.) I’m commemorating with another installment of marriage letters. ***** Dear Amber, The...
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