Reminiscence No. 3
Most blogs cover timely topics and, as such, their content has a fairly short shelf life. I try to make my posts more timeless since I want to be celebrating marriage for a long time to come. The number of visitors to this site has increased every month since I've started, though, which means that new visitors miss out on past posts that are as relevant today as they were four months ago, and as I hope they will be years from now. So every six weeks or so I indulge in a particular brand of egocentrism and highlight some of my favorite past articles, a practice based on the assumption that new readers are really missing out on good stuff if they don't browse the archives (and I'm not big-headed enough to think that anyone but maltagirl has ever actually done that). I've done this twice, calling attention to particular posts from the first twelve weeks of my blogging career. Here are some of the bright spots of weeks 13–18:
- The origin of my where we're from page. (If your browser doesn't take you straight there, scroll to the Nov. 18 post.)
- My first and so far only fisking lasted for three days and picked apart an article by marriage critic Laura Kipnis. Read Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 by following the links. (Nov. 19, 20, and 21)
- Mrs. Happy did a watercolor painting in college while we were just friends, but growing closer by the day. She called it Anything, and in this post I re-examine its composition and meaning in blissful hindsight. (Nov. 26)
- "I haven't prayed in nearly two years." So begins one of my more confessional posts. It describes how my wife's bout with bronchitis inspired me to begin relying on God again. (Dec. 2)
- Plenty of people have weighed in on the gay marriage controversy. If I were given the opportunity to share my opinion with a lot of people, I'd say something like this. (Dec. 10)
- At one point I told the story of the first kiss I shared with The Happy Friend. It was strange and awkward and wonderful. The next day, my wife shared her memory of it. (Dec. 16 and 17)
If you like those, check out Reminiscences No. 1 and No. 2. (Dec. 19 and Feb. 6)
