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Blessed Be the Tree of Life
The perfect symbol for a wedding gift!
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A Hilarious Throwback
Trust me to have a wedding night like this one!
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Cautious? Me?
She found it really hard to imagine that anyone could be more cautious than I am.
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My Recent Time Travel
I got to hop off a bus and walk right into the year 1857.
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The Great Cupcake Caper
That’s when I heard this noise that I’m really impressed could be produced by a living creature.
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Twitter me a Precious Memory!
Help me out, Drawbridge Nation!
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‘Til Death Do Us Part
Most married couples have included that phrase in their wedding vows. But how many of them actually think about it? I suspect that it gets thrown in there because they want to stress the fact that they’re not planning on a divorce. But the truth is, if your marriage truly is for life, unless you…
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The Black Sheep in the Family
Every family has one. A relative who refuses to play by the rules. Someone who causes unbelievable heartache, unspeakable scandal, and enormous amounts of frustration. Someone who generates really, really interesting family stories. In my family that was Uncle Dave, my mother’s little brother. When my mom was young, she was bedridden with whooping cough,…
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The Emotional Space Theory
Yup. Here comes another one of my theories that probably isn’t original with me. We often measure people by how we feel about them. We talk about how much we love this person or dislike that person. My theory is that there’s an entirely separate system of measurement which should be taken just as seriously—that…
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Trapped on the Washing Machine in a Powder Blue Tux
“You know, midgets are because humans used to breed with trolls.” These words of wisdom were issuing forth from my coworker, “C”. I wish I could say that I was shocked, but after years of working with this guy, nothing could surprise me anymore. There was no point in trying to explain that trolls are…