There is something I’ve been mulling over for what feels like a lifetime, a thread of thought I’ve spun round and round the spools in my head almost daily in recent months in an attempt to create something of logical consequence I can wear whenever my mind comes swiftly twirling back to the original question: [...]

We are home! from the destination wedding to end all destination weddings, so perfect was every moment, and while there are piles of laundry sitting about (and, in my defense, myriad in the process of being washed and folded, too), and suitcases still needing to be fully unpacked, over the past two days I have [...]

Today Chris and I are (over)packing and heading to the Oregon Coast to at long last take the vows we have been so excitedly anxious to take for what feels like decades. It’s a mock-elopement of sorts, we having changed our original date myriad times, and finally, and quite recently, settling on not settling for [...]

This past Saturday my good friend Krissy married her knight in shining tuxedo at The Glover Mansion in a beautiful orchid-laden outdoor ceremony. Their chosen pastor wore a faded black cowboy hat complete with a feather and cross adornment, and officiated brilliantly. He then promptly departed on a motorcycle (further enhancing his awesomeness), but not [...]

Three Fridays ago I played Road Warrior for the weekend, trekking first to the beloved, (not entirely) barren, and boiling hot trifecta of river-laden communities most popularly known as The Tri-Cities. Mostly because, well, there are indeed three of them. And also: they sort of run in and out and through one another, so much [...]

* Waves hand as if to signal she is, indeed, not dead, but alive and, mostly, well *
While frantically waving the dialogue in her head goes something like:
“Hi! I’m over here! Right! here. No, a little to the left. A little bit more. Yes! Right there! There, I am!”
Before she (finally!) sits down to write [...]

Updated to add, in lieu of (some not unexpected, completely understandable comments, and) me not wanting to make anyone sad and/or distraught:
Chris has surely seen the dress, in pictures, and pictures only, I mean, and while this causes neither of us any distress, I am completely understanding that it does seem odd/unlucky/different to some. [...]

Exhibit A:
An email received from the knot dot com, a site on which I perused for clearly far too long, and on which I definitely provided too much information, as they now see fit to joyfully! and I’m sure wholly unintentionally! remind me that I am nowhere! near finished with the preparation, for the [...]

Varietals of green with coral accents. The colors, I mean. Slated to be the hues of our vow-taking, that is. You know, in June.
I have eight months but (mostly) everything has already been chosen. Bridesmaids and their dresses. Groomsmen and their tuxes. Colors. Flowers. Photographer. Table center-pieces. Save-the-dates. Invitations. The moment I will undoubtedly lose [...]

They asked me to sign their marriage certificate, and I balked momentarily, not for any reason beyond the fact that I had no idea I as the maid-of-honor was to be granted such an added privelege. Being her big sister was enough for me, and I found myself nearly crying when I scrawled “Ladish” next [...]