About

My name is Laura, and this is my blog! Hello, world!

I’m a young bride– 22– and beginning life as a graduate student. Through planning my wedding, I’m enjoying a sense of aesthetic escape, learning to appreciate the time I have as a fiancee, instead of mourning single life or longing so deeply for wifedom.

Engagement is a hyphen sort of time. I’m trying to learn how to appreciate that dash as a symbol of metamorphosis; soon, something new and beautiful and whole will emerge. This isn’t a time that I want to move too quickly through, as some essential development takes place now. I don’t want to be so focused on our future that I forget our present.

This blog catalogs my attempt to live in the dash: to maintain an edge of social critique while managing not to get too bogged down in satin and lace, lovely as they are. One needn’t be compromised for the other. I want to love the best of both worlds not through mere toleration of this phase of life, but through exuberant fusion.

Here’s to life in the dash, the hyphen. Enjoy the ride; I certainly will!