From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Dinnertime Take Two: The Rending of Garments

August 31, 2009

I have already mentioned the mayhem that often is our dinnertime.  Many of our weirdest moments happen over our evening meal.  Allow me to paint you another picture. On more than one occasion Ben has ripped off his shirt at the dinner table.  In each of these instances, it wasn’t out of rage or anything, [...]

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Blog Introduction: Part 3. Why I didn’t want to get married.

August 28, 2009

I discuss the reasons why I didn’t want to get married. Some of them include: not wanting to leave my family; not wanting to give up university; not wanting to give up my youth; not wanting to be a woman; fearing sex.

I got married anyways.

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Blog Introduction: Part 2. After the Proposal

August 27, 2009

My response to Ben’s proposal. Lots of angst.

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Blog Introduction, Part 1: The Proposal

August 26, 2009

I was going to start this whole thing off by telling you about Ben’s marriage proposal. That seemed like a natural place to begin a meditation-slash-memoir on marriage.  But then I remembered how much proposal stories make me gag. Actually, to be honest, I did write the story of Ben’s proposal.  And then a few [...]

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Dangling Chicken

August 20, 2009

Ben is scandalized at the dinner table by the appearance of dangling chicken meat.

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Beginnings

August 13, 2009

This project was born out of two rather unremarkable events in my life. The first was a casual conversation with my seventeen-year-old sister Maggie.  We are both life-long, devoted journallers, and we were talking about our journal-writing over lunch one afternoon at my house, when she asked me in all earnestness, “Is there anything left [...]

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