Marriage

When my husband and I got married, the major holidays were pretty easy to parse out between our two families. His family is in California, about two hours

I wake up when my husband does, early in the morning, and I pack his lunch while he showers and the coffee brews. He’ll be gone all day, coming home in

We were just a few months into our marriage, and I found myself curled up in bed with tears trickling down my face, thinking, “I want to go home.

I watch a lot of British murder mysteries on television, and if I’ve learned anything it’s this: There’s a lot of murder in England, and it’s often to do with wills.

Mrs. Lantz. One of the students we mentored would call from across the room, now that we were engaged. They wanted to know if I’d gotten used to responding to it yet.

 Is this what you expected?” My husband will ask me while we’re both elbow deep in Mr. Bubble, scrubbing three squirmy, slippery kids. I’ll ask him when

When I tell someone I don’t know well that I’m engaged, the first question they ask is, “What’s his name?” and then inevitably, “What does he do?

It was 11 p.m. in Porto, Portugal, in a charming riverside apartment with glorious sweeping views of the water and cliffside. I had just spent the day

When I was at my first job, I had a boss a few years older than me who was entering the dating world for the first time. This boss had been raised very

These days, being a wife and being a mother are pretty big parts of my life. But if we’re being honest, they were both things that I really didn’t get until