Love Series: Pinkie promises and other problem solvers
Opinion piece by Kellie Lawless.
Tag: Love
Love Series: The struggles of a chronic third-wheeler
Like actors in Febreze commercials have gone noseblind, I’ve gone affection-blind over the years as a person typically sandwiched betweenContinue Reading
Love Series: Setting the hook
Some love stories take 19 years to unfold.
Witty Ranter Podcast EP02: The Love Episode
(Editor’s note: The audio has been updated and improved on this episode.) THE LOVE EPISODE features Story Collider’s Erin Barker talking about gettingContinue Reading
Love Series: I’ll be the spinster
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Sarah Nelson wrote this piece for her Arts & Culture class and submitted it to the New York Times’Continue Reading
Modern Love: Third time’s a charm … or is it?
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Sam Petterson wrote this piece for her Arts & Culture class and submitted it to the New YorkContinue Reading
Love Series: Why I got married at 21
I said yes to getting married over the shouts of a middle-aged man wearing short shorts and no shirt.
Reframing Engagement
I loved their questions the first time.
Kasey and I have been married for six months, but engagement season still tastes like stale maple syrup in the back of my mouth. It’s not like our engagement was a Nightmare on Elm Street — too few black-and-red sweaters and no drawn out chasing scenes from clumsy burn victims — but it wasn’t a Field of Dreams, either: Kevin Costner never made an appearance, and it seemed most times the only people gathering from afar came to ask how excited we were.