A Rose By Any Other Name…

The number one question I’ve been asked lately–after, of course, the date of the wedding–has been: Are you changing your last name? If you’re a long time reader of my blog, you might be aware of my thoughts on this subject. Being a feminist, I do question the tradition of a female changing her last [...]

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Engaged

Last Friday, Crow and I hosted a beer tasting party at my house. Many of our friends had expressed a desire to try beer outside of their usual comfort zone, so we decided to indulge their curiosity by picking up numerous beers–some of which we had never even tried–and having a tasting. In true Crow [...]

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Things aren’t always what they appear

A little Valentine’s Day story for you. All winter, I obsessed about a ski liftie who worked at the local resort to which I have a season pass. He was cute and about my age. I thought he was flirty. My friends thought he was especially flirty whenever I was around; they swore up and [...]

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Dating Eligibility Flowchart

I crafted the flowchart below recently in considering my dating deal breakers. It’s funny because in the geeky inner workings of my brain, I actually thought out the hierarchy just like a flow chart with the more significant questions on the top to weed out immediately what characteristics I know won’t work with me. I [...]

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Unfinished Business

Yesterday I was at going-away party for a friend in which I encountered–as I knew I would–an ex-boyfriend. Knowing that I would see him there, I had thought that I would eventually find a way to just tell him that I was sorry for the way I treated him when we were together, that I [...]

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Winding Down

We’re entering a patch of Indian summer this weekend. It’s kind of nice after four days of rain and gray skies last week (which included the weekend). I rode to work this morning. It may be the last time I do it. It was about 43 degrees at start time, and then I had to [...]

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Humility

I’ve been learning a little about humility lately. Particularly in the category of “things I’ve done while temporarily insane over a messy breakup.”  It’s really weird to have stuff told back to you that you said or did, such as blasting another person on various blogs and Facebook, and not even remember that you did [...]

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Crazy

Has a break up ever made you flip your gourd and become someone so unlike yourself that you lose control of your actions? Have you ever stood outside yourself, watching this behavior but been utterly unable to stop yourself from indulging the madness? Love can turn sane people crazy. Even in a breakup where you [...]

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