Also Suite Francaise. Not technically a romance novel, but definitely a brilliant novel. Its original draft was literally drug across the landscape of WWII after the author died at Auschwitz before finishing it.

Today is my 10th wedding anniversary, so I am in a reminiscing-about-my-wedding mood. :) I distinctly remember that angst you discuss at the end - the “Are we this kind of couple, or are we that kind of couple” dilemma that seemed to impose itself at the crossroads of every decision. It all felt so...if not quite…

Her era simply didn’t offer that many ways of framing her experience

But she never said it didn’t happen. She never disputed any aspect of the account except to say that she didn’t witness it. We can’t know if that’s true or not (and as many, including Fuchs, have pointed out — Jett could have witnessed it and not remembered it for any number of reasons).

Their service is the provision of wedding cakes for weddings. They have refused to make a wedding cake for a wedding. They must explain what is different about this wedding cake in a way that is not discriminatory to people of a certain race, sex, religion, or sexuality.

I had to make an account so that I could star your post and tell you how awesome your choice of image was.

I prefer YoSaffBridge’s Bible to that one.

It’s funny how the conservatives are all about “states’ rights” until they don’t like the law the state made. Then all of a sudden they’re all about the “constitution.”

For any who think this is a First Amendment issue:

I’m moving back to Wisconsin as soon as Scotty-fuckface-Walker is gone.

This is fantastic! Now my neighbors can’t say shit about my giant blood stone circle in the backyard or the skeleton army I planted under their flower bed.

Wedding in Israel, on a kibbutz in the middle of nowhere (well, as much as you can be in the middle of nowhere in Israel, it’s a small place). I’m at a singles table of three women and eight men, I’m not feeling particularly interested in any of them, but then one of them remarks to my friend that he works in his…

This is not my story. I was merely an observer on this crazy wedding hook-up ride.

My pops is black and my mom is white, and when they got married in the early 80s in buttfuck Colorado this was quite the anomaly/scandal. They couldn't find a black groom cake topper so they just sharpied in a white dude. Nothing says “special day” like blackface on your wedding cake

Most orthodox women are not spending 4000-7000 on a dress. The vast majority of orthodox women are getting gowns through community gemachs. A gemach is a free or low cost rental ($250). Most modest gowns are easily modified and rebuilt. In communities where there sometimes 3 or 4 weddings a nights within the…

The synagogue where I converted used “He” and “She” interchangeably when referring to God. The synagogue I go to now just uses some kind of gender-neutral situation like “One” and refers to “the Parent of us all.” Pretty neat.

I like to imagine Sal rescued Chauncey and they’re living in the Village.

This. Can I get one last “fuck Duck” in for what he did to sweet little Chauncey?

We get a lot of ultra-religious groups through work of all corners of religions. But we probably get the most orthodox jewish people, because their schools come visit and their schools are huge. But the reactions are from all of the groups that deem skirts the only acceptable form of female leg covering.

Why don’t they just go ahead and insist that women wear ALL of the clothes at once?