Added value…

Two of my former students are getting married today - Sarah and Tyler.  I will attend their reception this evening where I am sure I will also see a bevy of other EM alumni that remain close to them.  Sarah and Tyler are not the first pairing to come out of our program, there have [...]

It’s time to clean out those nooks and crannies…

The Forum has a choice to make.  Will it revise its existing policy on wedding announcements to allow for publication of same-sex wedding announcements? The opportunity for this choice arose from a denial sent to Allison Johnson by The Forum that informed her that the paper does not publish same-sex marriage announcements.  Allison wanted to announce her [...]

Congratulations Nadine!

I had to laugh when my friend Amy sent me the story about Fargo's Nadine Schweigert's vow to herself.  Amy picked up the story on Yahoo!, but I caught the original story on InForum (written by Tammy Swift).  Nadine Schweigert's marriage to hersef represented her public acknowledgement that "she has learned to love and accept [...]