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Why I Keep a Gratitude Journal

I kept a journal during the hard years, and for a long time it was mostly a record of everything going wrong. At some point I realized this wasn’t helpful. Instead of writing about the trials, I started listing what I was grateful for. First Chronicles 16:34. I talked about that shift on KFUO Radio with Paul and Larry, and it’s still one of the truest things I can say about surviving a blended…

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Ed Finally Gets to Tell His Side: Our KFUO BookTalk Interview on We're Not Blended, We're Pureed

Ed doesn’t usually do the talking. He’s the quiet one. So when he agreed to come on KFUO with me and Marty for this BookTalk segment, I knew it was going to be something different. He talked about Debbie, his first wife, who died of leukemia in 1987 after seventeen years of marriage. He talked about raising Andy alone for those two years before we found each other again. He talked about what it…

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When We Thought It Would Be Easy: My KFUO Radio Interview on We're Not Blended, We're Pureed

Ed and I thought we had an advantage. No ex-spouses. No custody battles. No divided loyalties over a living person on the other side of town. Both of us had lost our first spouses to cancer, and we figured that made the whole blending thing simpler. We were wrong about that. Beautifully, exhaustingly, sometimes hilariously wrong. I got to talk about all of it on KFUO Radio back in 2013, right…

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Jazz Woke Up Not Knowing Who She Was: KFUO BookTalk Interview on Mind of Her Own

What would you do if you woke up and the life around you didn’t match who you thought you were? That’s the question at the center of Mind of Her Own, and it’s the one I got to dig into on KFUO’s BookTalk program. Jazz suffers retrograde amnesia after a traumatic event, and when she wakes up, she’s living someone else’s carefully constructed life. Or rather, she’s living the life she built for…

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