The $500 Wedding: An Assessment

I always say, and mostly believe, that I'm not very good at anecdotes. However, there's a piece by/about me up at The Billfold right now, and it's pretty charming and mostly accurate. The "mostly" concerns wedding presents: tenacious people did find sneaky unsanctioned ways to give me stuff, valancy_jane especially. Val is oddly determined to shower me with appealing physical goods and with literal money, which I can't really complain about but basically means she has first dibs on my editorial services forever. It's like selling your soul to the devil if the devil really wanted you to be a nice person and obsessed over whether you were warm enough, not in a hellfire way but with scarves or soup.