Tonight I made spaghetti for dinner. As I served up everyone, I asked Meredith if she wanted any parmesan cheese on top of hers. She looked at me and said, “No, I’m good.” I then asked if she wanted a different type of cheese. She laughed and said,...
I left for a week-long solo road trip across the Midwest on Christmas Day. I had no work obligations, no set schedule to maintain, and really just had the vision to check a few states off Emily’s bucket list. I’ll be honest, I didn’t do much ahead of...
I can recall many things about my relationship with Emily, but there are some details that seem like a blur. For example, I know that one of the first things Emily and I bonded over was our love of Grey’s Anatomy… but I can’t remember the exact...
Like many other people around Middle Tennessee, the kids and I woke up to no power this morning. Due to the unusually cold temperatures, electricity usage was exceeding what TVA could provide, so they mandated rolling blackouts. Unfortunately, our local power company...
A few weeks ago, I made a video on TikTok about the story of how Emily and I went from being friends to getting engaged and then included a final bit about our last day together. I saw other people making similar “friends to more than friends” videos, and...
Last night I had an incredibly vivid dream. It started out like many of my dreams have since October 19: I need Emily, but I can’t find her. In last night’s variation, I was in some sort of garden or greenhouse (there were plants everywhere), and I had...
About a month into our relationship, Emily and I decided to take a mental health day and check out Soundwaves, the water park at the Opryland Hotel. I have so many memories of that day. In fact, I could probably write an entire post just about that. However,...
The kids and I had an amazing day with Emily’s mom on Sunday. We attended church, grabbed brunch, then enjoyed a matinee performance of The Nutcracker by the Nashville Ballet. Minus a couple moments of tears, it was one of the first days since Emily died where...
Today was laundry day. However, my laundry days have been strange for the past two months because I’ve slowly been working in boxes of clothes that never got unpacked this summer into the loads. That may sound weird to wash things that were technically clean,...
Last night, the kids and I had dinner and played board games with some people from church. It was a lot of fun, and I think I laughed more than I have since Emily died. As I drove home, though, the tears started. I don’t even know what caused the waterfall,...
