Our perfectly imperfect wedding

September 7 marked two years since I proposed to Theresa. By then, I had known for some time that she would like to get married and she had known for an equal amount of time that I had deep feelings of skepticism about the institution that were only minutely to do...

A by-the-book return to joy

My friend, the author John Ketwig, and I were having an email exchange about books recently. Though we’ve now known each other for many years, describing to each other the contents of our various bookshelves and random stacks of books (the to-be-read piles holding the...

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