the journal of love stories

It was the sunniest, happiest of all Saturdays in September. Emily was so excited, she wasn’t actually sure what day of the week it was, much less what month. If she stopped to focus, she could probably remember. But it didn’t really matter anyway, right? What really mattered was that she was getting married today! To the […]

Neither of them had any expectations on that balmy night in July as they attended the 10th anniversary party for mutual friends of theirs.  They met for the first time and, somehow, all either of them remember from that night was that there was something different about each other. Different enough that it was as […]

They danced slowly along the banks of tidal basin, as if there wasn’t another soul in the world near them. In reality, we were surrounded by tourists who were also there to take in and enjoy the beauty of peak cherry blossom season, but for these few minutes they swayed back and forth as though […]

He turned around to see her for the first time and tears streamed down his cheeks and into his thick beard. She smiled big, and then began wiping the tears away from her own eyes. After years upon years of knowing each other, growing through the awkward stage of adolescence  together, and maturing into adults […]

Almost two years ago I posted a bucket list for my life. It’s not the end-all  list for everything I want to do and, mostly importantly, who I want to be but it’s a fun little list of some adventures I’d like to experience in this crazy dance called life. I was recently reminiscing over […]