Tag: wife
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Evening with the Crists
It’s been a quiet day and everybody is relaxing. The cats are quiet. The kids are not. My wife is tired and sore. And I’m a tad intoxicated. Overall feeling good. This post has nothing to do with the daily prompt or markezuma.
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Favorite Types Of People
Who are your favorite people to be around? I don’t like naming names on this blog. I want to be famous but most of my family and friends do not. My wife is one of my favorite people. My parents are amazing. I have a few close friends that come and visit me. In general…
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Influences
Who are the biggest influences in your life? First of all I am an “influencer.” I am the biggest influence in my life as far as people go. After that, in descending order, are my wife, my parents, the brethren of the local LDS ward, my coworkers at Walgreens, and my Facebook family. Some of…
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God and my Wife
What skills or lessons have you learned recently? Several months ago I asked for guidance in my life. The Holy Spirit gives me a clear impression that I should leave my traditional employment. I told my wife about my revelation and she agreed with it. The lesson I have learned is that when God and…
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Naming Names
Who are your current most favorite people? I usually try to keep people’s names off my blog to protect the identities of the innocent, but this question makes that difficult. My wife Stephanie is my favorite person. After that comes my best friend Jim who hangs out with me at home and helps with the…
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Kidnapping Dream
I had a dream that my wife kept getting kidnapped and that I had to keep rescuing her. The times in between the rescues were idyllic enough. Laying in a double king sized bed together cuddling and all the while thinking we had room for another person. Walking around a college campus together enjoying the…
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Magic Pancakes
What food would you say is your specialty? When the children were all young, they and my wife were eligible (all at once) for WIC. That is the Women, Infant, and Children food program. We got, among other things, 18 eggs every week. That was way more than we could eat fried or scrambled. Since…
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Stuck in Crisis: Excerpt 2
I’d joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints back when they still called themselves Mormons. I was never very good at complying with Church dogma. I smoked cigarettes. I drank coffee, tea, and alcohol. I had a lot of trouble with the kind of clean living that was required to be eligible to…
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Special Relaunch
My wife is relaunching her website to build a presence online for her writing career. Check it out. She is awesome. https://stephanieallencrist.com/2023/10/13/a-poetic-promise/