To get the group Get Hitched off the ground, I need promotional options that exceed business cards, although those are a good idea.
One option is to run ads that are displayed before movies at relatively small local movie theaters, like the Pickford Film Center (http://www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/).
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
For Better or Worse, For Richer or Poorer
In the movie "Love Story", Ali McGraw's character chose to write her own marital vows. See https://youtu.be/4LH0lUap8fc.
I think that her character rejected the traditional vows, in part, because women were one day expected to promise "to love, honor and OBEY". As a feminist, she couldn't handle that.
But a traditional wedding vows are more popular than these "hippy dippy" vows. A standard vow (http://weddings.about.com/od/weddingvows/a/traditionalvows.htm) was as follows:
I, (name), take you (name), to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.
One can read other traditional vows at the aforementioned web page. Another says, "in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow". The part about loving in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad pretty much mirrors the part about health, but substitutes "good times and bad for references specifically to finances. It's the same idea, though.
In the video at https://youtu.be/qy7FOxhHGQA, the groom cries at the wedding. (He and his bride are both obviously Christians.)
I can REALLY relate to that, for reasons that are quite different from his. At 58, and with my mobility disability, it will be a minor miracle if I ever get married to an attractive woman.
I think that her character rejected the traditional vows, in part, because women were one day expected to promise "to love, honor and OBEY". As a feminist, she couldn't handle that.
But a traditional wedding vows are more popular than these "hippy dippy" vows. A standard vow (http://weddings.about.com/od/weddingvows/a/traditionalvows.htm) was as follows:
I, (name), take you (name), to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.
One can read other traditional vows at the aforementioned web page. Another says, "in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow". The part about loving in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad pretty much mirrors the part about health, but substitutes "good times and bad for references specifically to finances. It's the same idea, though.
In the video at https://youtu.be/qy7FOxhHGQA, the groom cries at the wedding. (He and his bride are both obviously Christians.)
I can REALLY relate to that, for reasons that are quite different from his. At 58, and with my mobility disability, it will be a minor miracle if I ever get married to an attractive woman.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Dating Over 50
Here's a video pertaining to the issue of age, in relation to dating. http://youtu.be/9J_bJqseLN4
As a 58-year-old man, these issues are very close to my heart. I freely admit that I have little or no interest in dating someone who looks so old that she appears to be a candidate for life in a hospice!
I totally agree with the woman who states that most men would prefer to date a woman who's 10 or 15 years younger than himself. I also agree that people should be honest about their own age, regardless of their gender.
As a 58-year-old man, these issues are very close to my heart. I freely admit that I have little or no interest in dating someone who looks so old that she appears to be a candidate for life in a hospice!
I totally agree with the woman who states that most men would prefer to date a woman who's 10 or 15 years younger than himself. I also agree that people should be honest about their own age, regardless of their gender.
Widows and Remarriage: About Tammy Trent
One of my Facebook friends is a woman named Tammy Trent. She's a talented Christian singer, from Michigan but now living in Nashville Tennessee (where so many Christian singers live). She fell in love and married a man almost the same time that she became a Christian. (She was very young at the time, but they waited until she was in her early twenties to get married, as did my own parents.) Her stage name of Trent was the first name of her husband, Trent. (Her married surname seems to have been Lenderink.)
YouTube has several Tammy Trent videos. The one at http://youtu.be/cX2_gwG6cSI tells her story, in relation to the tragic death of her husband in a diving accident in Jamaica. http://youtu.be/0AAwEEVi2W0 also tells that story.
Trent's body was recovered around the same time as the tragic attack on 9-11-2001. (That must have been VERY difficult, since most people were so preoccupied with the terrorist attack that they had little time left over for her private tragedy.) She also tells the story on her own web site, at https://www.tammytrent.com/index.php/about.
Tammy is probably not gorgeous enough to be a supermodel (e.g., Cindy Crawford), but she's still pretty enough for my own tastes.
The fact is that there are attractive women who are "available", some of whom have lost their husbands to death, and some of whom have lost their husbands to divorce. (Of course, there are also women who have never been married, but the number of such women in my own age bracket is so ridiculously small that it's hardly worthy of my attention.)
I am unlikely to visit Nashville in the near future, Even if I did that, the chances are good that I'd never bump into Tammy. But there are plenty of available women in or near Whatcom County. I just need to make a love connection to such a woman. I deeply yearn to do that. I've been single for my entire life, and I'm tired of it.
I freely admit that the desire to experience sexual intercourse is one of my motivations. But there's more to marriage than sexual pleasure. Having a "soul mate" is a matter of committing one's self to someone who shares one's values and interests to some extent.
Having a helpmate is not always a smooth experience, but I firmly believe that it's worthwhile, regardless of whether or not a couple has children, and regardless of whether or not those children came into existence via normal reproduction, or via adoption.
This blog does not have a huge number of readers, but if you're a widow or divorcee who longs for a spouse as much as I do, please feel free to call me (360-201-6473) or e-mail me (mark_w_pettigrew@hotmail.com). I'd love to share a cup of coffee with you, and possibly a nice dinner, so that we could get to know one another.
YouTube has several Tammy Trent videos. The one at http://youtu.be/cX2_gwG6cSI tells her story, in relation to the tragic death of her husband in a diving accident in Jamaica. http://youtu.be/0AAwEEVi2W0 also tells that story.
Trent's body was recovered around the same time as the tragic attack on 9-11-2001. (That must have been VERY difficult, since most people were so preoccupied with the terrorist attack that they had little time left over for her private tragedy.) She also tells the story on her own web site, at https://www.tammytrent.com/index.php/about.
Tammy is probably not gorgeous enough to be a supermodel (e.g., Cindy Crawford), but she's still pretty enough for my own tastes.
The fact is that there are attractive women who are "available", some of whom have lost their husbands to death, and some of whom have lost their husbands to divorce. (Of course, there are also women who have never been married, but the number of such women in my own age bracket is so ridiculously small that it's hardly worthy of my attention.)
I am unlikely to visit Nashville in the near future, Even if I did that, the chances are good that I'd never bump into Tammy. But there are plenty of available women in or near Whatcom County. I just need to make a love connection to such a woman. I deeply yearn to do that. I've been single for my entire life, and I'm tired of it.
I freely admit that the desire to experience sexual intercourse is one of my motivations. But there's more to marriage than sexual pleasure. Having a "soul mate" is a matter of committing one's self to someone who shares one's values and interests to some extent.
Having a helpmate is not always a smooth experience, but I firmly believe that it's worthwhile, regardless of whether or not a couple has children, and regardless of whether or not those children came into existence via normal reproduction, or via adoption.
This blog does not have a huge number of readers, but if you're a widow or divorcee who longs for a spouse as much as I do, please feel free to call me (360-201-6473) or e-mail me (mark_w_pettigrew@hotmail.com). I'd love to share a cup of coffee with you, and possibly a nice dinner, so that we could get to know one another.
Sunday, February 15, 2015
The Origin of Valentine's Day
I was moved to post this because my e-mail In box contained a Twitter message consisting of several recent posts there. One of those posts said:
"St. Valentine was beaten, stoned, beheaded and buried on 14 Feb 269 AD for helping persecuted Christians and marrying Christian couples!"
That IS a pretty bloody story, considering that we now celebrate Valentine's Day by sending out greeting cards (sometimes pretty cheap ones, if we're little kids just getting acquainted with the holiday) and giving flowers or chocolates.
It would seem that the part about marrying Christian couples helps to explain why we now associate the name Valentine with love and romance.
"St. Valentine was beaten, stoned, beheaded and buried on 14 Feb 269 AD for helping persecuted Christians and marrying Christian couples!"
That IS a pretty bloody story, considering that we now celebrate Valentine's Day by sending out greeting cards (sometimes pretty cheap ones, if we're little kids just getting acquainted with the holiday) and giving flowers or chocolates.
It would seem that the part about marrying Christian couples helps to explain why we now associate the name Valentine with love and romance.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Thoughts About Eunuchs and Wives
Lately, I've been using Facebook a lot more often to post short articles, just because I have enough Facebook friends that I can count on one or two comments indicating that they have actually been read. So rather than post the article here, I am just going to put the link to that post in this article.
https://www.facebook.com/mark.pettigrew.3950/posts/1010358462314782
https://www.facebook.com/mark.pettigrew.3950/posts/1010358462314782
Friday, December 19, 2014
Jim Rehnberg and His Rent-A-Rev Service
When I lived in the Chicago area, I made the acquaintance of a talented abstract painter named Marg Rehnberg. At the time, she was attending Willow Creek, a megachurch in the suburbs that later started a downtown Chicago branch.
I helped Marg to paint her suburban painting studio, for which I was paid a modest amount that nevertheless made it possible for me to survive some hard financial times.
Her husband, Jim Rehnberg, is an ordained minister. But he didn't pastor a church, and still does not do so. Instead, he runs a business he calls Rent-A-Rev. He specializes in officiating at marriage ceremonies, and also other kinds of events that are typically done by pastors.
http://www.rentarev.com/contact.php is his contact information.
Call the Rent-a-Rev: 312.386.1348 - Chicago
847.854.1230 - North & NW suburbs
630.232.2211 - West & SW suburbs 847.854.1098 - fax
jim@rentarev.com
I'm hoping to start a radio show at Praise 106.5 FM in Linden. It would be called "Get Hitched" (no big surprise there). I'm thinking that an interview with Jim might make for an interesting show.
I helped Marg to paint her suburban painting studio, for which I was paid a modest amount that nevertheless made it possible for me to survive some hard financial times.
Her husband, Jim Rehnberg, is an ordained minister. But he didn't pastor a church, and still does not do so. Instead, he runs a business he calls Rent-A-Rev. He specializes in officiating at marriage ceremonies, and also other kinds of events that are typically done by pastors.
http://www.rentarev.com/contact.php is his contact information.
Call the Rent-a-Rev: 312.386.1348 - Chicago
847.854.1230 - North & NW suburbs
630.232.2211 - West & SW suburbs 847.854.1098 - fax
jim@rentarev.com
I'm hoping to start a radio show at Praise 106.5 FM in Linden. It would be called "Get Hitched" (no big surprise there). I'm thinking that an interview with Jim might make for an interesting show.
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