I was on a trail run recently when I started pondering the complexities of life. I felt gratitude for where I am today and thought of those who had a part in forming who I have become.
OK, I’m talking ex-boyfriends. It sounded better when I sugar-coated it.
I’m really not one to dwell on the past. [...]

One of the “worse” aspects of the “better or worse” marriage covenant for my husband Jamie is having to hear about my dreams. Not the visions of someday living in a house with a white-picket fence but rather, the ones about how I dreamed I rode to a desert island in a shark’s mouth.
Those kind [...]

It is officially pumpkin season.
Of course, “pumpkin season” is year-round when you are married to a man who is obsessed with growing The Great Pumpkin. From the moment Jamie cut his 755-pound pumpkin from the vine last year, his thoughts turned to his new patch. He stalked Craigslist and reacted faster than Pavlov’s dog whenever [...]

My husband Jamie has been cancer-free for 10 years.
He had recently graduated from college and had started his own consulting firm when a lump starting forming on his neck. It disappeared after a week but night-sweats and flu-like symptoms emerged. And then the lump returned.
He tried a few home remedies to no avail and finally [...]

I never aspired to be a stay-at-home mom.
Reflecting back upon it, I never aspired to do much of anything. It was not that I was lacking in ambition. I was that annoying overachiever in athletics and academics but I just didn’t know what I wanted to do when I “grew up.” I didn’t declare Broadcast [...]

Recently, Momversation asked 3 bloggers to tell which is harder: being a mom or being a wife.
Dooce, having experienced post-partum depression, says that marriage was much easier, and she shares many good reasons why. She votes for motherhood as the more difficult.
Finslippy says (among other things) that it’s easier to neglect marriage, making it the [...]

Sara Miller is a writer, consultant and full-time personal assistant to two Y-chromosome monsters angels. She lives in Evergreen and chronicles her adventures in parenting and life at Lunacy: Finding Sanity in Life’s Little Things. You can also read her weekly performing arts and visual arts column in Evergreen’s newspaper, the Canyon Courier.
Apparently I am [...]