by Melinda | Jan 21, 2015 | Marriage, Movie Review, My Country, My Man, Random Musings, Relationship
As you can tell, I wasn’t sure what to call this post. I mean, it could’ve been: Kevin and Melinda: A Love Story Playing Hookey Dinner Lunch and a Movie American Sniper: Portrait of a Patriot That January Afternoon When it was 73 Degrees Just Two...
by Melinda | Aug 22, 2014 | Free Indeed, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, Hope, Living the God Life, My Man, Work
About three weeks ago, Kevin threw his back out. He’s done it before, but this time was a lot worse, and when it happened the lawn needed to be mowed. It’s quite a bit of grass that we mow around the house, and it was looking pretty shaggy. I...
by Melinda | Jul 30, 2014 | My Man, Thankfulness
We were so young, weren’t we, when this all started? Barely 18 and 19, when I accepted that first date at Dalt’s, surrounded by all our high school friends that first Thanksgiving of our college careers. We were friends for a couple of years before that,...
by Melinda | Jul 17, 2014 | Marriage, My Man, Thankfulness, Work
We sat there all day, my man and I, in our den-turned-office, across from one another at our new partner’s desk. He was doing phoning and planning; I was setting up social media, and working through correspondence. We alternated between constructive...
by Melinda | Apr 5, 2014 | Life Abundant, Love Free, Marriage, My Man, Relationship, Thankfulness
I was looking through the “notes” section on my phone for a phone number I’d recorded there a while back. Each of the notes is listed by the first few words of the note itself, and as I was scrolling through them, looking for the...
by Melinda | Mar 28, 2014 | Marriage, My Man, Relationship, Thankfulness
About 2-3 weeks ago, Kevin set a couple of posts for a hammock. It’s been a while since we had a hammock – years actually – and, last summer, we discovered the perfect place for one where the breeze is always blowing, even in the heat of the...