marriage Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/tag/marriage-2/ 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/tag/marriage-2/ 32 32 52246340 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 Eulogy To My Mother https://lisapullenkent.com/eulogy-to-my-mother/ https://lisapullenkent.com/eulogy-to-my-mother/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:23:16 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1637 When she shall die,Take her and cut her out in little stars,And she will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun. William Shakespeare Patricia … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/eulogy-to-my-mother/feed/ 5 1637 To Believe or Not to Believe https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/ https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:26:37 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1548 “Mom, is Santa real?” My youngest shouts this over the top of Katy Perry’s “Roar” playing on the radio as I’m dodging traffic on Providence Road, trying to get to gymnastics. I shouldn’t be surprised that questions of this magnitude … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/to-believe-or-not-to-believe/feed/ 0 1548 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 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 The Only Way Out is Through https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/ https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comments Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:29:01 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716 Grief lives in our house. Among the furniture, between the windows and the walls, it sits, thick and unmoving. Grief rides heavy on my chest. I can’t get a good, deep breath these days. It weighs down my husband’s shoulders and molds his features. Grief seeps into our nights of restless sleep and dreams of forgetting, of waking, and then remembering. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/feed/ 16 716 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 Object of Her Affection https://lisapullenkent.com/object-of-her-affection/ https://lisapullenkent.com/object-of-her-affection/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:45:54 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=635 “I just have to tell you something, Mom. I’m really liking boys without their shirts on.” Sydney first confided this secret to her long-time sitter as they walked downtown near campus where the streets buzz with college students and where … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/object-of-her-affection/feed/ 0 635 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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