We Do

As you may know, my guy gave me a sparkly ring last spring and asked me to be his wife. Eeeek! I didn't blast the info via text or on social medias. It felt like pretty private news? I also enjoyed getting to bask in my friends' surprise when I told them in person one by one. An unscripted facial expression from a bud—it's the emoji of olden days.

Mark grew up riding bmx bikes, heckling and getting heckled on the streets of chowda-town, Boston. Behind the wheel, he'll flip off five different people on a drive to the grocery store—but he's the gentlest creature I know. The calm and ease he brings to his days is everything I want to live and be good at. I like how I can be stomping around in the fugue state of a bad mood and he just smiles and pats me on the head like, "Hush."

We've bounced around everywhere from B.C. to Portugal. We've almost died together on an icy highway. We've lost our little pup too soon and cried together. We've hiked stairways to heaven in the high alpine, built sturdy cedar fences in the summer heat, slept under desert stars and shivered in hypothermic snow caves together ...

I'm really excited to marry this guy in June.