From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Sex Education, Part Two: The Book

October 30, 2009

I pursue that book about sex and learn some terrible things. The terror continues.

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Sex Education, Part One: The Talk

October 29, 2009

Some well-meaning pastors’ wives try to educate me about sex and in the meantime scare the living crap out of me.

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Sex Education: Intro

October 29, 2009

I have written about how the church community tried to educate me about sex.  It is a scary story that turns into a happy story. Two caveats, before you begin: (1) Siblings of mine, read at your own discretion. It’s not that I get super personal or graphic or anything; I just use a few [...]

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Reasons I Love Ben

October 26, 2009

I fear I may have been misrepresenting Ben a little in this blog.  He’s been really good about it all, but he has mentioned that I seem to be portraying him as something of an ape.  I don’t remember if he used the word “ape” but I distinctly remember him lifting his shoulders and lumbering [...]

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New Header

October 22, 2009

Guys!  Look at my fancy new header!  (i.e. the row of photos along the top of my blog). Sweet, right?  I just wanted to give out a shout to my talented friend Melissa Hiebert who edited the three photos for me and strung ‘em together just like I wanted so that I could make them [...]

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A Wife and a Scholar

October 21, 2009

Being married while being in school was fun and made me feel “different,” but it also taught me something about personal identity.

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Independence: A Virtue?

October 19, 2009

I consider the value of independence in a marriage.

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Some Other Blogs and My Own. Or, Give Marriage a Try!

October 15, 2009

I’ve come a cross some other terrific blogs about marriage that have helped me to define my own: I now see that what I want to do is encourage young people from my generation to give marriage a try.

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Misunderstanding Marriage

October 12, 2009

When my university professors suggested I do my PhD without my husband, I realized that our culture at large does not understand what it means to be married.

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Further Thoughts on "Falling out of Love"

October 9, 2009

Some of the comments I received from my generous reader-friends concerning my recent post, Falling out of Love, made me think that I probably ought to expand a little on some of my points and clarify some of my terms. For example, my friend Aso said this: I find love (passion?) an influential problem solver [...]

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