Category Archives: DC

Step 1: Open the box

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

This year, I’m doing this season differently. No presents, a limited holiday card list*. Making an effort to focus on gratitude and experience. What can I learn, what can I give to others before the end of this calendar year? … Continue reading →

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It Takes a Community

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Six months out. In any other universe–like waiting for graduation, or college to start, or a soldier to come home–six months can seem like an eternity. However, in wedding time six months is merely the indication that your hair is … Continue reading →

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Let’s Make a Deal

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

When I have time to write, I find that I am often writing about food. I love to eat and I especially love when the food is so tasty in the absolute sense that I am already mentally writing my … Continue reading →

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A Place at the Table

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

This Thanksgiving I want to make something that is equal to the amount of work the rest of my family members put into holiday food preparation. As I mentioned last year, being a vegetarian is complicated around the holidays. Not … Continue reading →

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Tunes

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

David Allen is in charge of the music. And you should be glad about this. His musicality is diverse and eclectic while mine primarily hovers somewhere between a 50-year old theater professor and a thirteen year old pop goddess. His … Continue reading →

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Historic Wedding Traditions

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

My guess is that the majority of today’s brides and grooms have no appreciation for the historic context of their own wedding traditions. Why do women wear a veil? What’s the purpose of the garter? Who decided newly wed couples … Continue reading →

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Happy Labor Day

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

Good Reads Extending the range of a food lover and a marriage from the Washington Post Write a letter to your future at Futureme.org via Washington Post Just My Type via NPR

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27 years

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

Sometime around the age of ten or eleven, I started to think about how my dad’s eyesight must affect his memory of the things he will not see clearly again. While we assume that we will just look more closely … Continue reading →

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Where have all the cowgirls gone?

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

Have you met me? I’m a pretty staunch feminist. And get this–I shave my legs and wear a bra, for real. David understands this about me, and I feel like we’ve been able to educate each other pretty regularly about … Continue reading →

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Impatient is not my color

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

Friends: I went wedding dress shopping. I don’t know what I thought it would be like, maybe a little like Say Yes to the Dress? But it wasn’t–there was no drama, there were no pushy salespeople ignoring my budget–it was … Continue reading →

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