One of the new traditions that my husband and I would like to start is to truly remember the things that we are thankful for on Thanksgiving.
Here is a start…
I am thankful for my husband and our love.
I am thankful for my parents.
I am thankful for my family, especially my 101 ½ year old aunt.
I [...]
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I am thankful for…
Posted in Holiday, relationships, tagged I am thankful for, Thanksgiving on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Go Ahead. Laugh. I Dare You.
Posted in Personalized Wedding Poems and Writing, relationships, tagged bride, funny, gregory corso, Groom, humor, laugh, laughter is the best medicine, marriage, poetry, wedding, wedding vows on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Isn’t there a saying that laughter is the best medicine? In a very unscientific way, I declare it the truth.
Sometimes we take ourselves entirely too seriously. My husband and I laugh often. We can already laugh about the wedding. Like how long it took us to plan the drinks list. We carefully named some drinks [...]
Legally Bound. Under Law.
Posted in Traditions, relationships, tagged bride, chief justice marshall, gay marriage, Goodridge v. Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health, Groom, jon ladd, jonathan ladd, legal marriage, marriage, wedding on October 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I married one week ago this weekend. We probably won’t know for years what the ceremony and union ultimately signify for us. Immediately, however, we were joined legally. I have the pink, temporary marriage certificate to prove it.
Since noon last Saturday, I have felt both completely different and exactly the same.
We have [...]
Interfaith Love
Posted in relationships, tagged hila ratzabi, interfaith relationships, jewish perspective, love, relationships on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Less than a week after our wedding, I am brimming with images and impressions of the wedding and our new married state. I’m not sure that those ideas are ready for organized sentences just yet. Soon. I promise.
Today, I’d like to share an essay my friend Hila Ratzabi wrote about her interfaith relationship. The essay, [...]
Countdown: (9) Love Story
Posted in Countdown, relationships, tagged fiance, love story, marriage, online dating, wedding on October 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I liked Hans so much after our first date that I was sure he’d never want to see me again.
We met at Union Square, under the statue of Washington. Well, officially we “met” online. We emailed back and forth and never even spoke on the phone. Hans, who was at Princeton at the time, suggested [...]
Countdown: (10) Why get married?
Posted in Countdown, Traditions, relationships, tagged bride, Groom, marriage, marry, Neark, New Jersey, new jersey wedding, NJ, Paramount theater, sewing blog, the lovely nest on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot about why we are getting married. I do not doubt my desire to be with my fiancé for the rest of our lives or our love for each other. I know that I want to marry him. I know that he wants to marry me.
But why, exactly? What is propelling [...]
8 Years Later: 9/11
Posted in Personalized Wedding Poems and Writing, relationships, tagged 9/11, melabee m miller, remembering 9/11, remembrance, September 11, September 11th, World Trade Center, WTC on September 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Eight years ago in Florence, Italy, it was 3 pm when it was 9 am in New York City. I was running a fire drill in a dormitory and the students trailed out slowly. I told them they could have died if there had been a real fire. They were unfazed.
One of the staff members [...]
Remembering a loved one before and during a wedding
Posted in Starting to plan, relationships, tagged childhood, friendship, passing, remembrance, wedding on September 8, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My childhood friend passed when she was twelve. To comfort me, my father often pointed to his heart, or mine, and said that my friend continues through us, the living. Young and grieving, I didn’t always agree.
Now that I am getting married in about a month, I think of her more often. I start to [...]
Modern Love in the New York Times: Gay marriage, gender roles and the wife/wives
Posted in In the News, Traditions, relationships, tagged gay marriage, gender, gender roles, judy syfers, Modern love, sara sarasohn, why I want a wife, wife, wives on August 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sunday’s Modern Love article, Once Political, Now Just Practical, by Sara Sarasohn, went beyond the gay marriage debate and dove into the role of a wife (in the context of feminism and gay marriage.) I enjoyed reading her contemporary and personal response to the 1971, Ms. Magazine essay by Judy Syfers, “Why I Want a Wife.”
If you are [...]
