Marriage: Let the Truce Be Told

Fantastic news for my wife, Stephanie, and I today. We've been writing essays about our marriage in a sort of he said/she said style. We take a topic or particular instance and write a short essay. We've received some great feedback from the few people who have read some of them, and today we got the best feedback of all: An online magazine wants to publish one of our stories.

The story, Diary of a Football Fan—And His Wife, is about the night the Packers lost to the Giants in last year's NFC Championship. I wrote it the following morning. It was one of those rare instances when I sat down and wrote 500 words in about 15 minutes and I didn't need to change a word. I mentioned the essay to Stephanie and she did the same thing. What's even more rare is the fact that they blended together almost perfectly, creating this nice little cohesive essay with almost no effort.

For the most part, we're writing these little vignettes for fun, but we agree that we'd love to have a magazine or website to publish them on a monthly basis. And if we get some positive feedback, we're going to shop around the idea in a book proposal. Marriage: Let the Truce Be Told. I like the sounds of that. I can already imagine the book tour. And the Oprah invitation.