If you want to fall in love with someone (or just like them more) –
Do things for them.
The kind of things that excite you, stretch you, and scare you just a bit. The kind of things that require at least a little of your attention everyday. The kind of things that you really do because they ma […]

Jihad and I just landed here in Taipei, and are waiting in the lounge for our flight to Bali.
I decided on way over that relationships are like flying.
Once you experience first/business class, the thought of flying coach just doesn’t sound like as much fun. It’s fine for quick trips. But for l […]

The text I received two nights ago from across the oceans read as follows:
“I met you for the first time 16 years and 5 months ago…unbelievable what one chance meeting can mean in one’s life. I adore you and love that I chose to meet you even when I didn’t want to be there.”
By “there� […]

Yesterday, I woke up at 4 am in a minor panic – wondering if my man was ok.
He was on his way from London to Luanda, Angola, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This may sound like a crazy itinerary, but its par for the course around here.
I knew he had made it to Ethiopia but I hadn’t received the u […]

Ten years ago, today, I did something wild and crazy. I married my man.This is how old we were. 
Life is good.
Sometimes it asks you to suspend your belief in logic, right and wrong, and common sense.
Act accordingly.

This is true in many ways, but particularly in our relationship.
So am I. Well, not a man of action, but you know what I mean. But since it’s easier to spot things in other people, than in ourselves sometimes, I’m gonna talk about him for now.
Ever since we met, he has been doing all kinds of cr […]