I use Google Calendar to communicate with my wife when I have made plans in the evening. Like most action items on an automated to-do list, I add all action items I could possible want to do and then decide whether to do them only a few hours before when I receive a reminder. With [...]
We are waiting on graduate school admissions to decide whether to buy a house which will determine when we are going to Netherlands/Germany for one or two weeks this summer or fall. We really like our missions focused church and have made many friends there –although almost all of them are married with kids so [...]
Much of the popular music that I listen to is art. It may show a perspective often foreign to me: abuse, a yearning to seduce a girlfriend, romantic jealousy, or some sort of conflict. Most art and literature has conflict and thus it is easy to see how popular art has conflict. Recently, I’ve began [...]
On Wednesday night, I went out to an Irish bar with guys from my Sunday school class for over two hours. I was the youngest of the six there by about four years. We talked about the failures of the American school system and how many of us planned on home schooling. Two of us [...]
If only people spent as much time considering who they are marrying as they do choosing the hors-d’oeuvre at the reception, maybe more marriages would be successful.
In Rebecca Mead’s book, The Perfect Day, Mead focuses on the consumerism that has taken over the American wedding. She says that one clergy she interviewed said that [...]
I personally haven’t thought about “gay marriage” in over a year, and just like the recent news about partial birth abortion made me reflect on the topic, anew I have new experiences to bring to this discussion since I am now married.
This is a rather old article/podcast (from 2004?) from Speaking of Faith, (which was [...]
Money is one of the greatest causes (more specifically greatest symptom) for divorce. At the pre-marital counseling with our pastor, he asked my fiance and I to create a monthly budget. I recommend that you have a budget and revise that budget annually. I’ve created a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet that you can use to “run [...]
Pommelled fruit
Back up against a tree,
golden foliage shelters the curves,
freckled islands, a desert
of smooth sand, gripped by palms
soaked in the sweet, salty sweat of a summer night
squeezed of the juice from a fallen fruit.
dedicated to Rachel James
Tonight, I finished posting the rest of Rachel’s photographs of our honeymoon in Ireland. She picked her favorite three-hundred and I posted them to our online photo album and uploaded the prints to Snapfish. If you don’t have an entire weekend to cycle through the over seven hundred photos in our online album. You can [...]
Paul Amato: “Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing” on the Diane Rehm Show
By some accounts, the institution of marriage is deteriorating; others say it’s adapting and changing with the times. A sociologist talks about a new study that used surveys of couples in 1980 and 2000 to assess how marriage is changing, for [...]