This is how to write an epic story: you begin with “once upon a time”, and you finish with “happily ever after.” Whether the middle bits are about a galaxy far, far away, or about a princess rescued and restored, we all learn from childhood that the truly great stories are ones which end with the…
We had been engaged for less than a month when I made the first joke about eloping. Nailing down even the basics of wedding planning was proving difficult: we didn’t know exactly where, or when to get married, or how our guest list should look. What we did know, however, was that we wanted to…
We recently bought an ancient old older gently-used car. It had clocked more than 140,000 miles, a fact which ordinarily might have made us fear that it would soon have something very terrible (and very expensive) go wrong with it. However, the car was regularly and carefully maintained: it had its scheduled services, regular oil changes, and minor issues addressed as they came…
One of the first signs that a relationship is “getting serious” is that you start to think about spending the holidays together. Thanksgiving and Christmas are times traditionally reserved for family, and so welcoming a significant other to share in the family turkey is a meaningful relational milestone. Walking down the aisle and exchanging “I…
It was there, in the grocery store, standing half way down the aisle in front of several hundred jars of peanut butter, that I realized something profound about marriage. Despite being a lifelong fan of crunchy peanut butter, I found myself reaching for a large jar marked “smooth and creamy”. Realizing what I was doing,…
