"...I'll become a neighborhood curiosity...a tragic but wise figure."

Sometimes it seems the most thorough solution to any of religious Jewish life's countless problems...Seraphic Press is one of the best blogs out there - and not simply because I so often find myself embedded in the saga of"How I married Karen". Not that grew up in '70's manhattan and married someone named Karen, but in the senseless foibles of dating remotely 'religiously' in the orthodox world; maybe at their time eating shabbos alone together, singing together, etc, was 'kosher' (but it would be thought rather 'lenient', to put it lightly, by most of the contemporary Observant "orthodox" world), and resulting dynamics (which would now likely be thought "a slippery slope" in our less-haimische generation), would be considered normal. Nothing like my actual external dating experiences. Regardless, I have found my internal experiences here and there in there, found some solace as well. Far too many examples, so just read especially 'how i married karen'.