People ask me all the time, “How soon do you introduce your kids to your dates?”  I can say from experience, “Not for a long time.” Kids do not need to see boyfriends and girlfriends coming and going. And no matter how much you think you are always going to stay close to the person you are dating, you won’t. Trust me.  Read the rest of this entry »

 A couple of years ago, right around the time Paul and I got engaged, I read a book called The Jew Store by Stella Suberman. It is a memoir of her childhood growing up as a member of the only Jewish family living in the rural South in the early 1920′s. Suberman’s father, Aaron Bronson, was a Russian immigrant who settled in New York City and hated city life. He longed for the beautiful farmlands of his native country and when an opportunity arose to manage a dry goods store in Concordia, TN, he jumped at the chance.  Suberman’s mother was beside herself. Not only did she fear for her family’s safety, she was concerned her children would not get a proper Jewish education. She went to her mother for advice, hoping she would be her allie. Instead her mother told her, “Go. Be a warm stone in your husband’s pocket.” When I read those words I made a vow to always be a warm stone in my husband’s pocket. Read the rest of this entry »