Marriage

To The Manner Born

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer Janet Garber To the manner born or Portrait of Paul Adam (1862–1920), writer (ca. 1900) print in high resolution by Georges de Feure. Original from The Public Institution Paris Musées. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. To The Manner Born My husband thinks he's to the manner born and likes to fancy himself a British lord of some import. He has quite a collection of fancy shirts, striped, checked, pale pink and white which he accessorizes with expensive, sometimes garish ties and gold cufflinks. His footwear is deeply tanned leather to match his roomy [...]

2022-01-12T09:30:26-05:00January 12, 2022|21 Comments

A Story About a Dollar Store and a Dream

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Heather Osterman-Davis Image from rawpixel.com / Markus Spiske The summer had been particularly challenging. I’d been sick the entire time so keeping my three- and five-year-old kids alive, let alone entertained, felt like a Sisyphean task, one which left me little time or frankly desire to connect with my husband.  Mitch and I hadn’t been on a date in months and had had sex just once, which I’d primarily agreed to because he promised to let me nap afterwards. I’d been banking... on this end-of-summer vacation to Cape Cod to [...]

2019-07-01T15:19:29-04:00July 10, 2019|4 Comments
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