To those of us who have planned or are planning a wedding, it sounds silly to even put the words “Wedding” and “Budget” together, doesn’t it? The average wedding in the United States costs about $26,000. This shocked me, but as I started planning my own wedding, I realized that planning a $25,000+ wedding is… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Sunday Sweetness: Unsatisfied
“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. Why muck and conceal one’s true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?” —Everett Ruess… Continue Reading
Poetry Friday: Falling | Carl Phillips
Falling | Carl Phillips There’s a meadow I can’t stop coming back to, any more than I can stop calling it a sacred grove—isn’t that what it was, once? A lot of resonance, trees asway with declarations whose traced-on-the-air patterns the grasses also traced, more subtly, below. As for strangers: yes, and often, and—with few… Continue Reading
Food Diary: Lunch – Homemade Avocado Hummus
I just wrote, “I can not believe that it’s been nearly a month since I started my new job!” But then I looked at the calendar and I realized that today is my ONE MONTH-iversary. My, how time flies when you’re blindingly busy, er… having fun! Seriously though, it has been an incredible experience thus… Continue Reading
Blogging Advice
I read this on Clare’s Tumblr this morning and it was too good not to share— “July 20, 1969 David Gascoyne once told me that the only point of keeping a journal was to concentrate on the personal, the diurnal minutiae, and forget the great and significant events in the world at large. The newspapers… Continue Reading
