Since I had never thought about my wedding day, I had no idea where to start.
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Not long ago, my family had a Thanksgiving Day touch football game in which my younger brother who is not a small man temporarily lost his senses and bear-tackled my father in the open field after he'd caught a pass.
They asked how I was feeling, how my day had been.
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But would my buying capacity have been any different if I had left my watch at home this day?
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The day that the rig collapsed and fell to the bottom of the ocean, I had my team in the Oval Office that first day.
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The day before had been my twenty-fifth birthday, and no one had remembered, not even Ginnie, my own sister, my Irish twin, eleven months younger than I.
Like Martha I have always been agitated and troubled b the cares of the day but my mother had a serene and loving heart.
Once again I called Delta, and this time they informed me not to worry, my flight the next day had also been cancelled, but they had rescheduled me to fly out the day after that.
My aunt had brought hers over one day, and I played Super Mario Bros. for the first time and she showed me tricks like being able to position yourself just right on a particular staircase and smash a Koopa Troopa shell in just the right way to wrack up 99 lives and I instantly fell in love with the game.
At one of my daughter's schools, I always thought it unfair that those who were often most strenuously tutored weren't the dunces, as they were in my day, the ones who had trouble keeping up.
In my case, I still remember going to the bank one day and finding that the government had taken literally every cent from my account.
Not only would I have had to pause or put the kibosh my 30-day trial run with the BlackBerry Z10, but I'm also on the other side of the world in a foreign country.
Upon my arrival in Orlando for the Baseball Winter Meetings last weekend, I had spent approximately 15 hours each day trying to unearth any morsel of information that could either enhance my overall knowledge of the sport or lead me to sources that could answer some of the complicated questions that I currently have regarding the business of baseball.
Balanced Mom Reaction: I would have been eager to be at home after my full day of work the day before, looking forward to date night Saturday night and had all the energy in the world for my kids in between.
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On Demo day I had to stand up and fit my whole worldview and plan into 6 minutes.
My mother had to devote a good portion of every day for the next few months to a quadruple mission.
And I saw my father, who had MS, get up every day on crutches and carry himself with that same pride, that same dignity that you get when you can provide for your family, that same hope that his kids would one day have opportunities he never dreamed of.
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At the end of the day, my locker mate saw what I had done and derisively asked.
They said I should buy my wife a present, because she had been calling all day and I never answered.
One day my brother Chris told me that he had mentioned Brother John to a colleague at his law firm.
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For killing my child I had earned the right to swim once a day in the beautiful and sometimes smelly Gulf of Thailand.
It was -- it capped off what for me was an extraordinary day because I had the distinct pleasure of bringing my son for his birthday to the Nationals game yesterday.
So, I gathered my courage, bit my tongue, and proceeded through my day, doing everything exactly as I always had, noting where I was each time I ran into him, and when.
Went on my way feeling strange all that day, wondering what had gone wrong.
Later that day, before I even had a chance to brief my partner, the landlord reneged on our verbal agreement and killed the whole deal.
"We had six 'failure' phone calls, and then one day my husband delivered flowers to my work that said "All my love to the both of you.
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