by Mary Carver | Oct 21, 2019 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, marriage
Last week was the 25th anniversary of my first date with my husband. Way back in 1994, we went to our homecoming dance together. And then we lived happily ever after. Um, well, kind of. We’ve been married 20 years, we have two daughters, and when we ended a...
by Mary Carver | Aug 11, 2019 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, friendship, Movie Moments
A few weeks ago, my husband and I saw a movie called Yesterday. It’s about Jack, a struggling musician who’s hit by a bus during a worldwide power outage. When he wakes up, the world is going on like normal, but he quickly realizes things aren’t quite the same as...
by Mary Carver | Aug 4, 2019 | friendship
This post was originally posted at (in)courage. Do you have authentic friendships? Are you living in true community? Those questions sure seem to be popular right now. The encouragement to develop authentic, doing-life-together relationships with people, the...
by Mary Carver | Jun 26, 2019 | marriage, Shows We Love
This post originally appeared at MomAdvice.com. I’ve heard that “Netflix and chill” means something other than the obvious to younger people. But at my house, chilling is exactly what happens when we settle down in front of the TV together every Sunday night. My...
by Mary Carver | Jun 12, 2019 | Family Life, Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, Truth in TV Shows
This post originally appeared on MomAdvice.com. We are still living in a time of peak television. But we’re also living in the summer of 2019. And that means stress of all sorts, including, possibly, the exhaustion that comes from the end of the school year...
by Mary Carver | Feb 14, 2019 | marriage, Truth in TV Shows
I’m pretty sure this couple is debating what show they should binge-watch next. Perhaps (hypothetically speaking, of course) he wants to finish that last season of The Musketeers, but she’s bored with the swords and the costumes and wants him to finally...
