Most great art lives within the nuances. Inside of every superbly written sentence or painted detail, we are often swept away by the fact that someone captured something so familiar to us so perfectly. All artists, whether they are musicians or novelists or songwriters or whatever, strive to make that special connection with the public MORE »
We rented the house we live in without ever having stepped foot in the place. In fact, we rented an old farmhouse in the Pennsylvania countryside from the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah. A scary prospect, to be sure. But we were set on raising our kids in the country, in the midst of MORE »
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People make a big fuss about their wedding pictures and it’s understandable. First off, they are the most visual link to that once-in-a-lifetime (okay, maybe twice or thrice) day when your love is consecrated in the eyes of your family and friends and even cousins you never knew you had. Plus, let’s be brutally frank MORE »
Even before I chose to get hitched at a judge’s house in the Utah mountains on the spur of the moment, I absolutely knew I would never be half of a couple who chose to send out engagement photos. It’s just not my way to stand in some posed posture of love with a babbling MORE »
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We got married whimsically, if you wanna put the right spin on it. We met in a bar, made out in a truck, and said goodbye in a dimly-lit parking lot all in one night. Two months later we showed up at a judge’s house in suburban Salt Lake City and squeezed each others sweaty MORE »
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One year ago today Serge and I were dealing with the most difficult period of our marriage so far. In fact, it was so difficult I asked him to move to his mom’s house while we sorted out our feelings. Even when he came home after a couple weeks, nothing was set in stone. But MORE »
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I never thought about having a themed wedding. My wife and I got married at a judge’s house in Salt Lake City nine years ago after knowing each other for two months, so we kind of missed out on the whole wedding planning thing. (Thank you, Lady Luck!) Still, I guess there was kind of MORE »
Marriage. It is one of the great and lofty mysteries of our time and of all the times before us. Think about it: the romanticized idea of being true and sharing your life with one person for the rest of your years, the rest of your decades. On the surface, it seems the epitome of love MORE »
Take heart, those of you in the midst of a rocky marital patch; it gets better. Almost exactly twelve months ago Serge and I decided a mini-separation would do our marriage good. Or signal the end of our marriage. One or the other. He went to stay at his mom’s place down the road for MORE »
The car keys are missing. And if they’re not missing right now, just wait like an hour or so. They’ll disappear. They always do. Monica, my wife, will walk into a store holding her fancy cell phone and her small, sofa-sized Momlette™ (mom wallet, she hates purses) in her hands and I will follow behind MORE »
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