Marriage Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/marriage/ Musings on Mothering, Metamorphosis and More Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:17:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/lisapullenkent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-daisies-2485064_1920-1-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Marriage Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/category/marriage/ 32 32 52246340 Evanescent https://lisapullenkent.com/evanescent/ https://lisapullenkent.com/evanescent/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:46:05 +0000 https://lisapullenkent.com/?p=3413 When I was growing up we moved a lot, big moves crisscrossing the country. Perpetually the new kid, I never stayed long enough to feel like I fit in. Then, I married a man whose childhood was the opposite of … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/evanescent/feed/ 19 3413 Resurgent Hope https://lisapullenkent.com/resurgence-of-hope/ https://lisapullenkent.com/resurgence-of-hope/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:28:16 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2367 I read once that Canadian geese are monogamous, that most couples stay together all their lives. Considering the brutality of life in this wild world, I find that to be an inspiring example of devotion, applicable to the human condition, particularly in our postmodern reality. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/resurgence-of-hope/feed/ 4 2367 The Greatest Gift https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/ https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:52:12 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2022 When I was young, I married my best friend. It’s a cliché easy to dismiss as sentimental until it happens to you. In my husband, I found my home. Now, ensconced in midlife and traversing the terrain of family life, … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/to-be-loved-the-greatest-gift/feed/ 2 2022 Through Grammy’s Eyes: A Birth Story https://lisapullenkent.com/through-grammys-eyes-a-birth-story/ https://lisapullenkent.com/through-grammys-eyes-a-birth-story/#comments Thu, 29 May 2014 22:13:42 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1315 Every birth has a story, ripe for the telling, though the tale varies with the perspective of the teller. The closest view belongs to the mother; it is her body, after all, that houses the new life, she who evicts … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/through-grammys-eyes-a-birth-story/feed/ 4 1315 Let It Go https://lisapullenkent.com/let-it-go/ https://lisapullenkent.com/let-it-go/#respond Fri, 02 May 2014 11:17:05 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1283 Before moving to Columbia, Missouri, spring break meant a week off school to hang around the house and catch up on projects. I soon learned this is not the case in the Midwest.  In CoMo, it’s ‘hasta la vista, baby,’ … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/let-it-go/feed/ 0 1283 The Long Haul https://lisapullenkent.com/the-long-haul/ https://lisapullenkent.com/the-long-haul/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:34:18 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1227 I’m washing up in a restroom at the Oklahoma City airport and for a moment I can’t place my location: hospital? hotel? restaurant? Elegant water faucets and gleaming granite countertops add to my sense of disorientation. I don’t even recognize … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/the-long-haul/feed/ 2 1227 Name Them One By One https://lisapullenkent.com/giving-thanks/ https://lisapullenkent.com/giving-thanks/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:34:53 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=941 Giving thanks for abundance is greater than abundance itself.   ~ Rumi I love Thanksgiving. It’s Christmas without the endless to-do list. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about the tree-decorating, light-hanging, mall-shopping, card-sending, present-wrapping, stocking-stuffing frenzy, it’s just I’m … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/giving-thanks/feed/ 6 941 Give and Take https://lisapullenkent.com/give-and-take/ https://lisapullenkent.com/give-and-take/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:44:52 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=674   You are my love and my life. You are my inspiration. Just you and me. Simple and free. Baby, you’re everything I’ve ever dreamed of.  Just You And Me by Chicago   “Al, I need ice.” With a white … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/give-and-take/feed/ 0 674 Accouchement https://lisapullenkent.com/accouchement/ https://lisapullenkent.com/accouchement/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:42:54 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=192 My husband and I had dinner last week with another couple, friends of ours expecting their first child(ren), twins, and expecting them soon. As we joked about the wife’s swelling feet and widening girth, (and the good fortune that her … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/accouchement/feed/ 1 192 In the Love Place https://lisapullenkent.com/in-the-love-place/ https://lisapullenkent.com/in-the-love-place/#respond Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:41:46 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=89 And so lying underneath those stormy skies She’d say, oh, I know the sun must set to rise. Paradise by Coldplay ~For Richard, Heidi and Gabriel~ It was Sunday afternoon. The weekend that seemed to stretch out enticingly before me … Continue reading →

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