Posts Tagged ‘Awesomeness Elsewhere’

Sometimes I think one of the reasons married life can be so intensely creative is, well, many of us just opened up our wellsprings of creativity for our weddings, and now we have BLESSED GLORIOUS time on our hands. Or maybe it's just because I'm friends with some of the most inspiring, creative, supportive, pro-active, and world changing women - thanks to this blog.

Whatever it is, my friends CEVD and ESB just launched Read The Printed Word... the pledge to read words on the REAL LIVE page. So. I'm taking the pledge. I like blogs and I love writing, but there is nothing as blissful to me as curling up with the New Yorker, or The Panorama (I could talk for day about my love for the Panorama), or Michael Chabon, or a book of essays or well, the Sunday New York Times. The Sunday Times in it's full printed glory is my #1 luxury of the week. I would roll around in it if I could. I bounce down the stairs on Sunday to pick it up, with delight, from the porch (Yep. We get our papers d-e-l-i-v-e-r-e-d.) So this week, in honor of ESB and CEVD, I pledge to sit down with my tea and read it from start to finish. I'll give it two full hours of not-producing-just-absorbing-bliss.
Continue reading Read The Printed Word

In case you wonder if us not-totally-mainstream wedding bloggers chatter behind the scenes (do you wonder that? I always wonder that about the non-wedding bloggers I obsessively read), we do. So, if you’d like to hear all about a conversation Ariel of Offbeat Bride and I had after the post I wrote about the stories we tell about life milestones… then go read her f*cking fantastic post about fear mongering and weddings (and life).

Because yes. So much of life is about not falling asleep behind the wheel (and waking up in the ballroom at the Ritz Carlton with a 500 person wedding you never wanted).