From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...
Hello Darling Readers, Well this has been a fairly awful day. Donald Trump is America’s future President. A candidate endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, who boasted of sexually assaulting women, vilifying minorities, mocking the differently-abled, and … I don’t want to go on. Because I can’t believe I have to. I can’t believe the most over-qualified candidate in any Presidential election lost to a fear-mongering misogynist who ran on a platform of sexism and xenophobia. And won. But that’s where we are. And America may not be my country, but I live in the free world that it purports to be the leader of, and I’m devastated. Shocked, and devastated. It feels like a second Dark Age has just been ushered in – a rejection of freedom and egalitarian values, of knowledge and enlightenment. But that’s where we are. … except, it’s not. Or at least, it doesn’t have to be My favourite response to this moment in time comes from actor, composer, rapper, writer, and ironically the creator of musical Hami...
