posted on November 13, 2013

 

 

My husband John is a health food nut, er…advocate, er…aficionado…umm, person from way back.  Thirty-five years ago, before it was even remotely cool, he was a nutritionist at a tiny little health food store called The Carob Tree.  He doesn’t merely believe that eating healthily is the best thing to do, he actually likes it.  You would think that after having been married for over thirty years to this man more of his healthiness would have rubbed off on me, but, well…it hasn’t.  Darn.

 

See, I care what things taste like.  I won’t drink the lawn clippings all ground up in the blender with organic acaia no matter how good it is for you.  But John…well, he is another story.  Taste comes second.  He...

posted on November 04, 2013

Often I feel like I am standing outside of my own life looking through a plate glass window that I cannot pass.  On the other side are those I love.  I have watched my husband and sons play with a freedom and ease of soul that was foreign to me.  Their “otherness”, no, my “otherness” weighed my legs down with chains making it frequently impossible for me to enter in to their joy.

I have been on the other side of the plate glass window noticing women share glances and inside jokes of connection and friendship and wondered at the intimacy.  Friends respond to invitations on Facebook to parties I was not party to.  People speak of movies and books they love and recommend and I have tried to watch or read many of them but...

About Stasi

Stasi Eldredge loves writing and speaking to women about the goodness of God. She spent her childhood years in Prairie Village, Kansas, for which she is truly grateful. Her family moved to Southern California back in the really bad smog days when she was ten. She loved theatre and acting and took a partiality to her now husband John...READ MORE