The following is a guest post by Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple, authors of Good Enough Is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood, which I reviewed here. Hollee and her husband, John, started regular… Read more ›
This past weekend, Tim and I attended one of my friends’ weddings and it was absolutely beautiful. The bride teaches across the hall from me, so we spent a lot of time talking about weddings this year – as you… Read more ›
You may have noticed that I’ve been writing quite a bit about books lately. If you haven’t noticed… well… then you haven’t been reading! You may be over there wondering why this is (or simply enjoying the brilliance of my… Read more ›
Six months ago today, I was busy primping and pampering myself, trying to make myself look more beautiful than I’ve ever looked before. I arrived at the bridal suite nervous and a little cranky. Anticipation has never been my thing.… Read more ›
Tim and I viewed our first houses in our house hunt on Monday. And believe it or not, we found a house that was absolutely gorgeous. Perfect neighborhood, perfect yard, perfect kitchen, perfect basement, perfect bathrooms, perfect fireplace… it was… Read more ›
I love posts about people finding their feminism. They just make me so happy inside! 🙂 Here’s a great one by Lisa Shoreland. She is currently a resident blogger at Go College, where recently she’s been researching parent plus loan… Read more ›
I had the good fortune to attend and present at the Connections Conference last week. The awesome thing about presenting at conferences like these is that my registration fee is paid and I get to attend all sorts of great… Read more ›
Why I love my Mommy: She will always gently remind me when I border on the too-selfish while NEVER telling me I’m a bad wife if I tend too much to myself and not enough to my husband. There are… Read more ›
Tim signed up for the Chicago Marathon this week. Guess when it is? October 9. Does that date ring a bell? (Hint: white dress, big ceremony, happiest day of my life…) Historically, this has always been a big weekend for… Read more ›
Tim and I haven’t had a good, blow-out fight in a really long time. That’s usually how it goes; we go for a long time in happy, coupl-y bliss and then something starts building up – usually with me –… Read more ›
I have been promising a wedding recap on this blog complete with pictures since, probably, around October 10. Every time I sit down to blog, I think: Gosh, I really should post some pictures from the wedding since I’ve been… Read more ›
It’s been a while since I’ve posted some guest posts on feminism and relationships – mostly because now all of my submissions are coming from people trying to advertise for free on my site. 🙁 I miss your brilliant posts! … Read more ›
To everyone who has read, commented, shared, joked about, or even mentioned in passing something about this blog… To everyone who has listened to (and read about) me tirelessly complain about name changes and white dresses and people who don’t… Read more ›
This could just as easily have been titled “Things I’ve learned From the First Five Months of Cohabitation”. The marriage and the cohabitation really do blend together. I know it’s only 2 months into my wedded bliss, but it’s a steep learning… Read more ›
A recent survey showed that 4 in 10 Americans now believe that marriage is obsolete. I saw this on the news a few weeks ago, but I was too busy reading The Hunger Games to comment. It’s too bad, too,… Read more ›
People are often flabbergasted when they realize I am a feminist and I am married. Of course that doesn’t apply to any of you; if you were flabbergasted then you probably wouldn’t be reading this blog. Somehow, though, they don’t… Read more ›
I absolutely cannot wait to tell you all about my wedding ceremony and all of the wonderful personal touches we added that made our nods toward traditional wedding ceremonies feel completely unique. But I really feel these stories will not… Read more ›
… wait till you have kids!” I should have known this would be the most common comment I’d receive when I said marriage is hard. Of course, it was more or less a tie between that, “grow up” and “stop… Read more ›
Cat Rocketship, the author of this guest post, is maybe like my long-lost twin. She writes today about how she reconciles being a housewife and being a feminist, and her themes really work well with what I’ve been writing about… Read more ›
A fellow Twitter-er read yesterday’s post about early marriage being difficult for me and asked: “Why do you think the act of getting married changed things? I’m genuinely curious.” I responded, of course, but 140 character-bursts don’t seem to do this topic… Read more ›