Putting Your Single Self on a Shelf

I was walking out of church after service and a woman in her eighties came up to me. Sarah had been a member of our church for about fifteen years. My church is made up of mostly older couples, women who became grandparents at a young age. Sarah came up to me and complimented me….

Secret Key

Love is more than just an emotion, but rather an emotion that most everyone has felt at least one time in their lives. Love can blind-side a person to zone out the other person’s habits. It can even cloud a person’s actions. It’s an amazing feeling to walk on clouds, but the reality too often…

Everlasting Love

Building meaningful relationships today is starting to become a challenge for people. There is this disposable thinking as I like to call it. We become too busy to return a phone call and rely more on virtual relationships than the real-life face-to-face contact that we once learned to rely on. Relationships are important to overall…

Say What You Need to Say

I often think about movies and the way relationships are portrayed. I have to remind myself that each show or episode is scripted. Movies are meant to help us to escape and focus our thoughts somewhere else for a change. In thinking further about relationships, I came across this story. When I first read it,…

The Book of Love

Relationships, even dating, has changed so much today than in the 60s and 70s. Today, to meet someone we have to resort to technology. Dating websites and matchmakers have taken the place of actual dating. There are some real differences especially in attitude of how men and women date today. Back in the 60s and…

It’s What’s Meant to Be

I can’t tell you how many times that I’ve walked into some of the biggest cities and see more women alone than ever. Women who know how to dress for success, yet they’re alone. Sure they may date and meet people online or in restaurants. But still, they’re alone. When did it all happen? When…

The Smell of Coffee

In every city and small town, there seems to be a coffee shop nearby. I’m probably one of the few people, who have never had a cup of coffee, but I hear from regular coffee consignors, how delicious and satisfying a cup of coffee is for them. In some ways I’m almost jealous that I’ve…

Sweet Dreams

I recently found a new brand of sheets called Brooklinen, a comfortable set of sheets that changes the way you sleep. I hadn’t realized how poorly I was sleeping prior to buying sheets, but it was at that moment that I knew that it was just meant to be. What I also came to realize was…

Twist of Fate

I read a quote that really struck me. It said: “love isn’t about finding Mr. or Miss. Right, it’s about working with them to find the right relationship.” I thought that was really interesting and I hadn’t really thought about it in that way. Being so close to the city, I find myself observing people,…