r.m. allenMar 7, 20205 min5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Dating My HusbandOn March 7, 2015, my husband asked me to officially be his girlfriend. It wasn't a particularly romantic moment (we were in our college's...
r.m. allenMar 1, 20203 minMonthly Review: FebruaryI have spent the last six Februaries unhappy. I'm not sure what it is about the second month of the year––the interminable Wisconsin...
r.m. allenFeb 13, 20203 minA Gift Received [Original Poetry and Meditation on the Goodness of Marriage]But do I take this man? I do, and yet I cannot truly say I take, for he was brought before me, and in him I met Thy grace unearned, a...
r.m. allenFeb 1, 20203 minMonthly Review: JanuaryJanuary did not feel like a year for me; it was more of a blink. Between starting another semester of grad school and trying to keep...