Some of my favorite dates with Mark have been fairly simple ones at home. In the years when our children were really young or our...

I will be the first to admit, I am not always very good at protecting or preparing for dates with Mark, often finding myself at...

I gave Mark a wallet for father’s day in June with the last line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses, “to strive, to seek, to find, and...

I love date nights at home. Honestly, I’d choose a quiet night at home with Mark over going out almost anytime. We started these dates when our...

Although Mark and I try to have at least a weekend or two a year to ourselves, we generally go away for those days, holing...

I remember the night you called me, your voice awkward and intentional, “I need to see you. We need to talk.” I assumed it was...

As parents, Mark and I have learned to be creative about our “dates.” Every other week we have a legitimate night-out to ourselves, but between those...

“This is not our home,” Mark told the kids, pointing to the house we’d lived in the last seven years — the only house they...

These single days of the year we set aside to salute the parents in our lives feel to me a bit like fitting a blue...

Mark’s currently taking a class on radical publishers/writers during the British Romantic period — which of course creates 1700 pages of  light summer reading for...