Marriage
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Waiting for Baby
Avery and I were married for seven years, two months, and twenty days before we welcomed Samuel. I have written multiple posts about why you shouldn’t ask people when they are planning to have children (mostly because it is none of your business). Now, as a person with a baby, I can safely say Continue reading
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Many, many months
Dear friends, I am sorry it has been so many months since my last post. It has been a busy fall and winter and the blog is quite an indulgence. I also wanted to take a bit of time to evaluate the purpose of the blog; it was starting to feel a bit narcissistic to Continue reading
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Work, work, work all day long
So after two full weeks on the road and away from the office this last week was an all-out sprint to get caught up. I had hearings of some kind every day and lots to get done on my upcoming cases. I was working during the day and then working during the night. To top Continue reading
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The Baby Question- Part 2
I wrote a post a while back about “the baby question”. Ave and I started getting questions about starting a family the day after the wedding (which was ridiculous to me). For a while folks stopped asking because we made it pretty clear- we were both in very intense graduate programs and there were no plans Continue reading
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What a ride…
Hello Friends. I feel like I have been having to say this a lot lately but I apologize for the long break in posts. In yet a second example of ask-and-you-shall-receive, in one of my last posts around the turn of the new year I talked about learning to live with uncertainty. At that point Continue reading
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Why 20-somethings need to stop writing marriage advice articles
It seems like every day when I am scrolling through Facebook I see one or two articles written by folks in their twenties laying out all they have learned about marriage. They come often in the form of lists but sometimes in the form of stories or quotes or funny anecdotes. They also always come with Continue reading
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A New Year
So here is my obligatory New Years post. Usually I make a post around the turn of the new year reflecting on the past year and laying out what lies in the year ahead. I almost didn’t make this post however because I feel like I can’t really complete the second part of that equation Continue reading
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Oatmeal and Pasta
I am married to an astrophysicist. With this comes some non-traditional quirks including knowing much more about space than I would have otherwise known, watching physicists debate each other at social functions using vocabulary I cannot even begin to recognize, and saying goodbye to Avery a few times a year so he can go work Continue reading
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“Compromise” is not a dirty word
I will totally admit to being somewhat of a political junky. I know a lot of people can’t stomach politics for more than five minutes at a time and I understand why; it is usually a fusion of bad acting, finger pointing, tantrums, and little productivity. But I think it is entertaining at its worst Continue reading
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Checking Out to Check Back In
First off I am glad to be back! The last three and a half months has been the longest hiatus I have taken from the blog since its inception. I apologize for that. It was a very stressful summer preparing for and taking the Bar Examination and did not leave free time to write. The Continue reading
Briefcase on the Kitchen Table 