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  • Marriage -- it's meant to be spicy.

    While studying with Cindy on Saturday, we had a tangential conversation about spicy food... and somehow we came up with this phrase. We joked around about my using it as a title for my first book. It's a bit cheesey, y…
  • Speaking of Traditions...

    There are just *some* traditions that you've gotta toss out -- literally. Tonight we pulled the top of our wedding cake out of the freezer -- just as the old tradition says to do after a year of marriage. Wanna see th…
  • Unconditional Surrender

    For Sam's birthday a few weeks ago, I took him to the Midway Museum (a retired USS Aircraft carrier that is docked in our port). Right beside the Midway is a 25 foot WWII commemorative statue called "Unconditional Surre…
  • 6 monthiversary

    [warning: mushy, cloying post ahead.]I don't know too many couples who make note of the passing of every month of their marriage, but for some reason, Sam & I are rather eager to take advantage of every opportunity t…
  • Adjustment

    Marriage is an adjustment. For some, it may be a seamless transition - as commonplace a feeling as getting on a taxi because you get on a taxi every day. But for others, the idea of a taxi feels as foreign a concept as…
  • First Fight

    I've been asked a few times recently if Sam & I have had our first fight yet. It makes me laugh. Is it actually possible for any couple to have gone from friendship to dating to marriage and not have any conflicts …
  • Mystery

    They say that marriage is a mystery. Sex is a mystery. And, isn't God, too, a mystery? When we seek greater knowledge and greater insight into these deep matters to find answers to our questions, the result is having …
  • Marital Curses "Now you do everything together, but just wait five years, then you will go your way and he will go his way and you will say, 'I don't want anything to do with you.'" Someone actually pronounced this cur…
  • The Wedding (Part II)August 12, 2006Surreal moment: During the wedding rehearsal on Friday night when I walked down the aisle for the very first time -- with Sam (my groom!) standing at the front, waiting for me, it fel…
  • My Wedding Day (Part 1) I woke up this morning and realized that actually today is my wedding day. Tonight, we are having the Vietnamese wedding ceremony. And though it's been on my schedule this whole time, it just n…

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