Have You Guys Set a Date Yet???

It gets old fast, that question.  Especially when the answer is, "Ummm... not yet..." When we first got engaged, I wanted a long engagement.  We'd only been together for a year and a half, and were still very much in the "honeymoon phase" that I'd been assured would wear off eventually.  We hadn't moved in …

Where Does the Time Go?

Time is money.  Time is freedom.  But there are never enough hours in a day... One of the primary reasons I've struggled so much with my job is that it takes up so much time, it seems like there's nothing left. But is that true? A recent Times article called "The Busy Person's Lies" examines …

A Life Sentence

Sometimes you stumble across something--a fragment from a poem or song, or a glimpse at a work of art--that stops you dead in your tracks because it so perfectly reflects your state of mind.  It happened to me this week while I was reading and came across the following: "The prospect of his future life stretched …

Making Time for Love

  My fiancé, M, and I have very different work schedules.  I leave the house while he is still snuggled under the covers.  We get home at about the same time, but his hobbies often keep him out late, while my schedule requires me to be in bed early. The worst, though, is that even …