what a wedding means
I originally wrote this in 2010 as a guest post for a blog that’s, sadly, not up anymore....
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Category: philosophy
eight years on
What is it like being married? It’s like two satellites passing one another in orbit. Maybe...
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like fish in a barrel
For old times’ sake. Because this is seriously taking me back to the good old days of snark....
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flattery gets you everywhere else but here
This one goes out to those two people who voted that they wanted to see only my most unflattering...
Read Morethe visual record
Photography is a tricky thing.1 Photography is both art and science. It is record and story. It is truth and fiction. From the moment we enter the wedding planning world, we start to develop a love-hate relationship with...
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wait for it
We’d gone to bed the night before the wedding feeling broken and demoralized, and...
Read Morehello world
Okay, trust me guys, I have been writing, but lately my main writing technique has consisted of staring at the computer screen for ten minutes debating whether “inconsolable” or “distraught” is just the...
Read Morelook, i have collected some words and will now present them to you in a semi-organized fashion
First of all, PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: I clicked the link. I did it. I looked at the first batch of my wedding photos. Fifteen times in a row. I did it for you guys. And the money and fame. Wait, that’s not right. I did it for you...
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the old college try
The other night we arrived home from honeymoon to a refrigerator that contained approximately 17...
Read Moreoff the grid
You know that ridiculously starry-eyed, all-consuming, fleet-footed, fiery-passioned storybook romance into which people in movies and on TV are always falling? The internet and I have long had that kind of relationship....
Read MoreroshamBEAU: gender roles, wedding expectations, and my blissful ignorance
A couple of weeks ago, when I got home from work one day, the beau looked straight in the eye and said, “I wrote a blog post.” My response was to gaze back at him slack-jawed, for he might as well have said he...
Read Moregetting married
Nina got married on July 3rd. Nina, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the comments section, is an awesome lady who somehow found my blog one day and started commenting. One thing led to another — you wouldn’t...
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