Marriage

The big 4-0.

March 23, 2011

Today my sweetie is celebrating a milestone birthday. And I’m thinking back to when I first met him. It was 1997 and I was 19 years old. We happened to meet each other in a place where, to be honest, neither of us should have been. I was getting away from my hometown in the [...]

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More thoughts about marriage.

February 2, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot about marriage lately, because my own marriage is about to change with the impending arrival of our offspring. I have to admit that I’m a little bit nervous. I’ve seen a few marriages hijacked by parenting. Today, I read some things about marriage that really resonated with me. In a [...]

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Why I hate princesses.

January 21, 2011

For some reason, I have it in my head that our baby is most likely a girl. Which means I’m tossing around lots of girl names and scheming about how to avoid the explosion of pink that inevitably happens after a girl is born. But what I’m really thinking about is how to delay, for [...]

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On eleven years of wedded bliss.

November 9, 2010

I meant to write this post on our anniversary, September 25, but I was a little distracted that day. So, over a month late, I wanted to write a few things about being married to Joel for eleven years. These have been the best, happiest, and easiest, eleven years of my life. People will tell [...]

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