by Emily Wierenga | May 4, 2012 | children, college, laundry, love, marriage, mary oliver, mountains, romance
“to live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” (mary oliver)it’s not that we don’t... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 21, 2012 | (in)courage, conference, encouragement, friendship, God, hope, love, marriage, real, webcast, women
grandma jo comes on wednesdays. angela on tuesdays, miss carla on thursdays, to help me dress the boys and to read to them. they go swimming with auntie karen, feed chickens with judith, make forts with juanita, color with jen, and play trains with amber. other women... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 14, 2012 | food, forever, husband, love, marriage, wife
he loves me with glasses of strawberry wine and cheese sticks arranged pretty on a plate. he loves me by waking early and frying pancakes for the kids, with bacon and strawberries, and making eggs for me, with peppers and onions, even though the onions make him cry.... by Emily Wierenga | Feb 15, 2012 | anorexia, anorexia nervosa, commitment, God, love, marriage, prayer
I lie in red pajamas on the living room sofa, my husband, Trenton, on the other in his comfy clothes—his green-ribbed shirt with the hole and his fuzzy pants that have no waist. “Our good times were more than our bad,” he says in a voice that aches.“Yes, but our bad... by Emily Wierenga | Jan 30, 2012 | anne lamott, compassion, love, marriage
i adore men.i really do.my husband in particular.but sometimes they drive me crazy.to quote one of my favorite people, anne lamott, “part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in...