I have reached the period in my life where engagement has started to spread like the swine flu.  I am not engaged and have never been married, so the idea that all of my friends happen to be receiving proposals of marriage from their boyfriends at the same time is a little bit of a mystery to me.  Some of the couples getting engaged have been dating since the beginning of college, and some have barely been dating for a year, but yet here they are now suddenly at the same stage in their relationship.  What changes occur in our …read more

I was scooting around the internet, looking for something to write about when I found a quote given to Uptown magazine, by Jamie Foxx. In the quote, he gives his perspective on marriage.
“[I'm] not necessarily a bachelor, but I look at marriage as not for me. Maybe that will change at some point, but right now, I see many of my married friends who are so miserable. And I’m looking at that thinking, ‘Man, maybe I don’t need that.’”
I think Jamie sounds very young there and he’s not that young. He’s in his 40s, right? That’s too much life experience …read more

I’ll try my darndest to keep it in today…
I had expectations for the new job that when my new employer told me he’d pay me commissions against a salary, that there would be enough traffic to warrant a good sales job. I was wrong. And it has already become very difficult getting through the day.
Principle? Trust God
I developed expectations (long ago, this is not new) that if I were reasonably mature and acted in a sober manner with a partner in my life, i.e. like an adult, that I might receive needed support from a loved one when the time …read more