Archive | Bride Godzilla

18 November 2008 ~ 9 Comments

It's a parable. Y'know, because their ceremony needed some Jesus.

Several months ago, Ben and Abbie had their first “for better or for worse” moment: they decided to run a marathon together.
They started out strong, running together six days a week along the lake shore, past their new condo and the grassy spot where they got engaged, nothing between them but the Chicago summer sunshine [...]

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18 September 2008 ~ 9 Comments

The juice is loose

I made the mistake today of going out into the real world wearing yoga clothes.
Being that I work from home, I tend to forget that the vast majority of the population does not live their lives wearing Lycra pants and a hoodie. After all, I only emerge from my house to go across the street [...]

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11 September 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Back on the scale

That’s it. Molly and I are on a diet.
Back in Nashville, when a friend started calling Molly a hippo, I didn’t think anything of it. When we went on our honeymoon and the dog sitter reported to us that she had started feeding Molly a scant cup of dog food — rather than a heaping [...]

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13 August 2008 ~ 2 Comments

I am a rock; I am an island.

But wait, there’s more! You didn’t think I would leave out all the intimate details of our honeymoon, did you?
It was inexplicably wonderful to vacation in Maui with a big group of family and friends — we pretty much took over the resort! We couldn’t walk from one end to the other without running into [...]

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07 August 2008 ~ 9 Comments

We're married!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot: We got married!
No, seriously. I almost forgot. You know that feeling you get in the middle of winter, when the wind is blustering around you and you haven’t been able to feel you toes since Thanksgiving, and you just can’t seem to remember how it felt to stand in that [...]

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