Last night I began preparing our tax return. Since Rob and I married in 2002, I’ve done our taxes every year. I love the job. Each January, I label a manila envelope and stick it on the kitchen counter to collect tax documents as they arrive in the mail. And on an evening like lastContinue reading “Married, Filing Jointly”
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The Little Lamb
As I walked through the cemetery one day, I noticed this little stone not far from where Rob is laid to rest. The writing is faded, the features of the little lamb now worn with time and weather. I am drawn to this lamb and to the precious one who rests beneath its stone. IContinue reading “The Little Lamb”
A Last Gift of Love
When Rob and I became engaged, we traveled from Illinois to our old college town in Ohio for makeshift premarital counseling. Mostly, Rob wanted to hang out with his old English professor, and I wanted to visit my sisters who were in school at the time. Over dinner with the professor and his wife, theContinue reading “A Last Gift of Love”
