CONTENTS

Foreword

Why This Book Was Written

Dare 1      Expectations

Dare 2      Introspection: Childhood

Dare 3      Introspection: Biblical Wife

Dare 4      The Vision

Dare 5      Me and My Big Mouth

Dare 6      Random Acts

Dare 7      If You Can’t Say Something Nice

Dare 8      Remember

Dare 9      Project Overlook

Dare 10    Good Advice

Dare 11    Whatever We Pay Attention to Grows!

Dare 12    Leftovers

Dare 13    The Play Set

Dare 14    Treat Him Like a Man

Dare 15    Where’s Your Treasure?

Dare 16    Dusty Chandeliers

Dare 17    Sweet Words

Dare 18    Fighting Fair

Dare 19    Seventeen Frying Pans

Dare 20    Blow Dryer Briefs

Dare 21    R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Dare 22    Eighteen Shirts

Dare 23    Knight Time

Dare 24    Quiet Time

Dare 25    Not Always What They Seem

Dare 26    Going to Camp

Dare 27    3:08 A.M.

Dare 28    Spice of Married Life

Dare 29    Thirty-Year Drought

Dare 30    Too Much Skin

Dare 31    Spectator Sport

Dare 32    Crackle Paint

Dare 33    Lights Out!

Dare 34    A Safe Place

Dare 35    The Context

Dare 36    Sown in Tears

Dare 37    Just Go

Dare 38    Initiate

Dare 39    Caroline’s Father

Dare 40    Your Story!

New Beginning

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Author