At our wedding, we read the bittersweet passage from Ecclesiastes: “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain (more literally “breathy”, transient, fleeting) life that are given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in…

how do i express how lovely it is/to be loved by a gardener?

from our bedroom window I watch you

watching seeds sprout and leaves unfurl,

On losing my virginity and how desire withOUT pressure is super-sexy

I’m completely happy to be (and even enjoy being) Mrs. New-husband’s-last-name in social/family circles, even if I’m not changing anything legally. But I’m thoroughly annoyed to be called Mrs. New-husband’s-FIRST-AND-last-name. I’ve joined a family; I haven’t erased my personal identity.

Heretical as it may be, I’m not yet ready to argue with my five-year-old’s apparent conviction that the Holy Trinity is the eternally coexistent “God-and-Jesus-and-Santa-Claus.”