by admin | Jun 4, 2015 | The Uxorious Blog
Sometimes you just know. We humans think we’re rational and pragmatic; steady, reasoned thinkers building our lives on the bedrock of logic and truth. The world is concrete, knowable; we can write it’s substance down in books, post it’s realities on the...
by admin | Jun 4, 2015 | The Uxorious Blog
The man drove home from his office, forlorn because he knew his house would be dark and cold and quiet and lonely. His family had scattered. His son had gone off to college, married, and moved to a town and hour away — which was all wonderful and proper, but which...
by admin | Jun 4, 2015 | The Uxorious Blog
I’ve been writing this little column for over five years now, and just when I think I’ve got nothing left to say, my wife opens her mouth. Like most women, she doesn’t do this intentionally, it just happens. And after three decades, she still cracks me up. I was...
by admin | Jun 4, 2015 | The Uxorious Blog
It was a day of little things. I rushed home from work and yanked my car into the driveway only to find the place dark and vacant. As middle-aged men often are, I was befuddled for a few seconds, and then I remembered that my wife was visiting our son’s family and...
by admin | Jun 5, 2015 | The Uxorious Blog
Most mornings these days I wake up wondering if I can still dig a hole. A lot of projects on our old farm require shoving a shovel in the ground and by early December things get a little dicey. The nights get darker and colder and when the ground finally does freeze...
by admin | May 31, 2015 | The Uxorious Blog
An insurrection of chickadees yanked my eyes open very early and I padded downstairs to peer out on the dawn. Morning glory seedlings were straining for the new sun from the windowsill, the sump pump was gushing leftover January out of the basement, and the snow was...
