When my husband and I were living the good life in Brooklyn Heights, in my our two-floor loft (don't get excited it was only about 750 square foot and had a leaking roof that we could never quite fix no matter how many handy men took at stab at it) weekends were spent lazily reading the New York Times, gardening on our deck, perusing estate sales, biking over the Brooklyn Bridge to Battery Park … [Read more...]
The Case for Procreation, or Why Having Kids Keeps Me Married
I have to be honest; I look at couples who have managed to stay married sans kids and am mystified by what keeps them bound in matrimony. Not that I'm in any way implying that a couple should or could not get married if they don't intend to have kids. Rather, my amazement is at their ability to remain so devoted to each other and their union without that shared common thread that's the proverbial … [Read more...]