byChrisWhite – 2024

Life, love, marriage, and parenting; why it’s nothing less than the literary equivalent of War and Peace, except with more plot twists, fewer battlefields, and considerably more laundry. It demands virtues you didn’t even know were on the menu, and just when you think you’ve got the recipe figured out, you realize you’ve been baking without sugar, or salt—or good sense.

Now, don’t go fretting about memorizing the whole dang thing; nobody has time to thumb through 1,200 pages of life’s fine print. The trick is knowing your vocabulary: define love before it defines you, spell out patience before it spells trouble, and for heaven’s sake, don’t be too proud or too foolish to flip to the glossary when you’re stumped. Life may be long, and marriage may be longer, but happiness? Well, that’s just a well-timed footnote if you play it right.