As parents and followers of Christ, my husband and I make careful choices about how we observe different holidays. While Halloween is a secular holiday for most in our culture, the same could be said for Christmas and Easter. One may even argue that the secular...
The French writer Colette captured these passionate conflicting thoughts of a new bride: “The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.” She captures...
“I think David should wear a white tuxedo,” my dad insisted. “He is just as pure as Sabrina, so why shouldn’t he dress in white for his wedding day?” With smirking eyes, my spouse-to-be and I attempted to explain to my dad that white suits were cool in the ‘70s...
In 1981, Prince Charles and Princess Diana spent $110 million on their wedding, according to financesonline.com. It was dubbed “the wedding of the century,” and decades later, it is still the most expensive wedding of all time. Countless hours were spent...
“Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood . . . the people that you meet each day.” Those familiar lyrics from the song by Sesame Street’s Ernie played along in my head every morning as my son and I took our thirty-minute walk up and down the streets of our...
