In preparation for the new semester

I am booking Restaurant Week lunches and buying shoes on Zappos.

Easier in the third person

Weddings and graduations - I don't remember much of my own, but when attending someone else's I find myself listening carefully to the commencement address, the officiator's blessing, the wedding vows, secular and sacred. As if the act of attention was not something offered not just to them - the graduand, the bride - but also to us, a renewal of our ambitions, and our vows.