I had dinner with some friends tonight, and through conversation about professional life, relationships, and myriad other things that kept us at our table about an hour after we’d paid the bill, some insight emerged that I found helpful and comforting.  So I thought I’d share. Much too often, I quietly compare myself with other […]

John and I have been geographically blessed in our relationship. We grew up in pretty much the same town, and our parents still live there and likely will for many years to come. We both went to school in Boston. We both studied abroad in Germany (though at different times; this is more of a […]

For as much as I dreamed about falling in love as a little girl, I don’t think I could have imagined a story as sweet, as natural, as blessed as that of how John and I found one another. We grew up in essentially the same town. But because I went to public school and […]