I don’t drink. Alcohol, that is. I stopped drinking December 2009. Before that, I liked to drink, and did so whenever I liked. Not too much, you understand, just a glass of red or two probably five nights a week, and sometimes the whole bottle, except for the last half a glass I’d toddle over and...

Now that I’m done addressing the men, it’s time for me to talk to the women-folk.* As you probably know, these two latest articles are my answer to the question posed by author Don Miller  in his blogs “How To Live A Great Love Story” (since deleted). To me, a story is something you make up,...

Right off the bat, let me say this will not be a list of things you as a man can do for, to, or with, the woman in your life in order to have a better relationship with her. It will not be habits, gestures or practices you can exercise which will please your wife or girlfriend. This is because it will...

Recently Donald Miller, a person I admire and respect immensely, wrote a two-part blog speaking to young men and women, presumably of an age where they have been dating a while and are considering marriage, about how they can live a better, more authentic love story. Miller, in his writing, speaks to...

I believe that only married people should have sex. You probably do, too. Evangelicals breastfeed their young on the notion that exchanging bodily fluids other than saliva (and sometimes that’s off limits) shouldn’t happen outside the bounds of matrimony. Now, tell me where it says that in the...

There are three things a Christian woman in her twenties can be guaranteed to experience: weddings, bridal showers, and baby showers. It doesn’t matter if you’re single, married, a rich corporate lawyer, or a poor freelance writer – your friends are going to get married and reproduce,...

I’ve been doing some thinking about marriage lately, in light of the recent decision by New York state in the U.S. to legalise homosexual marriage, as reported by the New York Times. I myself am married. I committed this act when I was all of nineteen years old. The person I married was just eighteen,...

I just spent a lovely Valentine’s Day with my husband. It was our sixth Valentine’s Day together. We met in January of 2006 and were married that August. (Hey, when you’ve spent your entire adult life unmarried, you don’t waste time dating Mr. Wrong or letting Mr. Right get away.)...

I watched the movie Fireproof last night for the first time.  I know I’m coming late to the party, and as I understand, the movie has its fair share of critics who say Christian art often doesn’t compare in quality to its secular counterpart.  And the movie has its fair share of proponents...

This summer I heard about a book called “100 First Dates,” and I was interested in reading more about it because as it turns out I, too, am a first date connoisseur.  I went online and read the premise of the book: a single, twenty-something-year-old girl in New York named Laura Esteves dated every...