Melissa, Oh?

My brother-in-law got married last weekend, and Jeff and I made the trip to Clearwater, Fla., to celebrate Casey and Kristina’s big day. I was going to write a huge post about love and how apparent theirs is, how they clearly can’t wait to spend their lives together, and how inspiring and touching they are. [...]

Yesterday was a big day in the family. One of my brothers-in-law, Gray, a First Lieutenant pilot with the Marine Corps, left for a 6-month deployment in Iraq.
Another brother-in-law, Casey, tied the knot with the love of his life, Kristina, in Clearwater, Florida.
A lot of emotions here, but above all, love and pride win out.
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I’m putting together some files for my web site’s portfolio (it’s about time!), and I am reminded of how much I absolutely love designing wedding albums.
My favorite part about my wedding albums is they’re not just picture books – I am a journalist by trade, so I enjoy telling stories. Rather than showcasing just the wedding [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]