Marriage on television today is a cross between a bad joke, a bad dream and a nostalgia trip. Finding a contemporarily happily married couple is like finding an empty taxi in mid-town Manhattan at 5 PM – possible but not very likely….. Recently I read the above quote in The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too […]
Entries from October 2003
Marriage in the media
October 24th, 2003 · 1 Comment
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Ride of the Valkryies?
October 24th, 2003 · 3 Comments
Speaking of Star Wars (since I mentioned Darth Siddius in a recent post)….while we were staying with our friends in Port Angeles, we listened to Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries on the stereo. I told Ted I thought it was in the Star Wars soundtrack. He disagreed. We made a blog bet: whoever lost would […]
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Waking with the sun
October 23rd, 2003 · Comments Off on Waking with the sun
not a bad thing to do, but not the best thing to do this time of year when the sun rises much after seven…. But the other morning I was blessed to wake up late…as I got out the door to go around the block in my neighborhood, I saw the sky, pretty: blue with […]
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Fourteen years of love
October 23rd, 2003 · Comments Off on Fourteen years of love
This week – yesterday actually – marks fourteen years since Ted and I started dating. When we were dating and at the time of our wedding, I loved Ted more than I was in love with him. Being in love seemed so scary to me, after all the sorrow I’d seen while growing up. Loving […]
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Change of seasons
October 23rd, 2003 · Comments Off on Change of seasons
The other evening, after Ted left to go to a meeting, I took the girls on a walk in the Grand Forest. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, as it is #7 in Tracking the Otter, a series at the local library exploring the island and its history. For weeks the book […]
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