One of the nicest brides I ever met

November 16th, 2008

A memory
It is 2004, my first trip to Vegas and I will finally get to meet Jeff’s sole cousin, Ryan (I have a couple dozen cousins, so this one-cousinthing is a surprise to me.) Ryan and Robin are getting married one week before Christmas, and Jeff and I are full of excitement: A wedding, reuniting with a [...]


Flashing boobs at wedding guests and other horrors

October 29th, 2008

A memory
It is 2004, September 04. The day of my wedding. Any stress that goes along with planning one’s wedding had escaped me the day before, as I sat at Aunt Josies’ at my bridesmaids’ luncheon surrounded by Mom, Mia (my grandmother), my sister Jenny, my aunt and cousins and bridesmaids - basically, all the women [...]


It was a curvy road finding you

October 7th, 2008

But when our eyes touched
joined in our new world
I could do nothing but stare
and wonder what it would take
to know you
to hold you
and then we said hello
Cedar Mountain was ours but it couldn’t keep us
You belonged to the shore
but my heart was yours
You were in my dreams again last night
A millennium alone
enough to carry me [...]