A few days after we’d told everyone we were engaged, we learned we hadn’t actually told everyone we were engaged. One of Evin’s cousins and two of my oldest friends found out via Facebook which left us scrambling. Ugh! This transgression necessitated several crow-eating phone calls, a lot of apologies, and a wee bit... read more

Two weeks and five days ago my girlfriend Evin and I got engaged. We both knew this would happen even though getting engaged had become of late, the elephant-in-the-relationship -- infrequently discussed, occasionally joked about.  By the time I was fairly sure she was just insane enough to accept, I went out and did the... read more