by Mary Carver | May 29, 2015 | Books, Movies & TV, Family Life, My Life, parenting
Mark and I both love music. We may not always love the same kind of music, and more than one road trip may have ended in silence due to car stereo battles. But we have enough musical preferences in common to share Pandora and iTunes accounts, so that’s...
by Mary Carver | Jan 20, 2015 | My Life
When Mark and I were planning our wedding, we were young. Twenty and twenty-two, to be exact. At that point in my life, I’d never eaten a single meal off china, so when it came time to register for dishes, I was confident we’d never need china. (Yes, I was...
by Mary Carver | Feb 11, 2013 | My Life
I can’t quite remember where everyone else went that night – ice skating? a slumber party? the mall? What I do remember is that on the night of my eighth grade Valentine’s dance, a bunch of my classmates had a scheduling conflict and chose to attend...
by Mary Carver | Jul 17, 2009 | My Life
UPDATE: All right, friends. I promised you my story, so here it is. I grew earlier than most of the kids in my class. Including, most notably, the boys. But also the girls. And that height gave me an advantage when it came to the sport of basketball. Enough of an...