marriage

Three years of Boykis

October 3, 2011

Mr. B and I have been married for three whole years, which is longer than the restaurant this picture was taken at has been around (due to Russian business practices), and is about as long as my mom’s (photobombing the pic) been smiling with relief that I married someone Jewish, even if he did take me to a pork-ladden Oktoberfest this past Shabbat. I was Terrified to get married and I called my mom crying every day for two weeks,paralyzed ...

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Getting Married and Living Apart is Like Drinking Non-Alcoholic Wine

January 26, 2011

For over a year now, I’ve been reading trend pieces about how more and more married couples are choosing to live apart for a variety of reasons.  Some are because of the economy. But some are because of careers that could easily be compromised. For the people that live apart by choice as opposed to circumstance,  I have to ask: are these people out of their f*$%^*# minds? Living apart while married is one of the hardest things I have ...

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Vicki’s Marriage Advice

May 31, 2010

Chaviva is getting married today.  This is a big deal, for a number of reasons, including the fact that she has been undergoing an arduous journey in converting to Judaism, one that finally came full circle several months ago with her Orthodox conversion. As  a fellow Jew and one that has been married for almost two years, I feel completely qualified to give marriage advice. This whole episode is making me extremely sentimental remembering our own Jewish wedding which satisfied ...

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Mr. B’s minimalism

April 15, 2010

Mr. B owns a bunch of t-shirts that I HATE because they make him look like an antisocial programmer and he LOVES because they make him look like an antisocial programmer.  They are all around six to seven years vintage. I’ve been quietly throwing most of them away, but one was left, this one: If you have to ask, you aren’t cool enough. Anyway, so as we were moving stuff, I quietly managed to throw out this shirt.  Or so ...

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Welcome to the bardak that is my apartment

April 14, 2010

Bardak. Mr. B and I are moving to Pentagon City . I’m pretty sad, because I love our apartment and the fact that we were 20 minutes away from DC but could eat breakfast on our balcony facing the woods.We’re moving because it doesn’t serve the right purpose for us anymore. What I love most about it is that we lived the first two years of married life here, instead of communal-Soviet-style with our parents in the same one-bedroom apartment ...

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