You know, I didn’t finally quit smoking until I stopped thinking about not smoking for the rest of my life. That’s too hard. But, I can not smoke for one day, right? So I said “I’m not going to smoke today.” Then I didn’t. Then the next day, I said “I’m not going to smoke … Read more
I happened upon a shorter version of this story in a comment this morning. I needed to read it today, and I also want to retell it. Three years ago, Aaron and I were riding the elevator down from the beach condo at which we’d just had a vacation. It was the last elevator ride of … Read more
Our sons are old enough now that I have to consider carefully how to blog about them. (Well, even more carefully.) Some things are still easy. If they say funny things, they’re generally happy for me to share those, though most of those become Facebook statuses and not blog posts. But regular goings-on are more … Read more