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Beginner's Heart
love and marriage
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Today would be my parents’ 68th wedding anniversary. I think… 🙂 They were married after the war — mother a beautiful divorcée, working in my father the captain’s recruiting office. Well in to a tumultuous marriage, they divorced. Then remarried each other. Not the kind of rôle models you want for marriage, really. My father…
day #28 in a month of Thanksgiving: it’s the happily ever after thing…
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Today I’m very grateful for all the little things my beloved does, every day. Things ranging from getting up to take the dogs out when they howl at 2 a.m. (maybe that’s a big thing…), to running to the store for the THIRD time the day before Thanksgiving, to checking online to find the best…
throwback Thursday (the anniversary version)
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Once upon a time (and it was a very long time ago) there were a very young man and a very young woman. They fell in love & eventually (much to their parents’ delight) married. They didn’t know any ministers — neither being church-goers — so they asked their religion professor to marry them. ‘Happy…
day 20 of National Poetry Month ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
The poet Mona Van Duyn is another favourite. This is one of hers I hadn’t known previously — I actually was looking for another poem when I came across it. Being a sucker for bees (my first name, as many readers know, means ‘the bee’; my family might even go so far as to say…
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