New York City – January 5, 1994

Journal Entry 1/5/94 Got up at 7:15.  Went to cafe to get a Coke.  They gave me a can and a straw.  $1.10 for a can of coke. Rode subway.  Not as bad as I thought.  It looked cleaner than I imagined it.  Trinity Church was pretty, but not as impressive as St. Patrick's Cathedral.  …

The wedding vows I wrote for my groom to read to me

(If you have read this post about how the vow-writing went down at our recent wedding, you can skip these two paragraphs.)  Chad suggested writing our vows for each other . . . which I found out later began as a joke, but I leaped on as something cool and quirky and personable and fun.  …