Introduction Of Guest Blogger, Notice Of Next Installment Of The Julie Story, and Explanation Of Next Week’s Schedule
The Next Installment Of Julie’s Story1
With no little trepidation, I have decided that the next installment of The Julie Story, which focuses on our wedding and the events associated with the wedding, will consist of Vows, a short story written by Julie, which I will post tomorrow (June 7, 2006).
This was not a casual determination.
First, Julie wrote Vows to be read as fiction, not as a memoir. Although it is no challenge to identify the individuals and events that are the basis for the story, some details, all or almost all of them minor, may have been adjusted in the service of literary mechanics. My recall of a few facts, primarily those of the who said what when variety varies from Julie’s story, but, again, most of the historical particulars in Vows are true to the facts, and it is possible that some or all of the discrepancies are the result of faults in my memory, whether caused by psychological reasons or just the passage of time.
My principal conflict about the Vows episode, as will be clear once the story is posted, is that my perspective differs significantly from Julie’s, and I certainly would not have written a description of the period in which the wedding took place as she wrote Vows.2 My Vows doppelganger does not come off unsullied.
On the other hand, it does seem that offering Julie’s point of view, on this rare occasion when it is available, makes sense, and her story is, I admit, more entertaining than my blogguscript version would be.
And there have been instances in which Julie was right.
OK, there have been instances in which Julie was right – and I was wrong.
Future Installments Of Julie’s Story & Other Posts
Finally, there will be a lag of at least two weeks between tomorrow’s Vows post and the ensuing installment of Julie’s Story , partly because the narrative becomes more heavily laden emotionally and partly because my annual vacation is imminent.
During this holiday,3 Heck Of A Guy Blog posting in general will be, at best, haphazard, if not totally absent.
Footnotes
- Julie Showalter was the fiercely intelligent, sexy, and loving woman and prize-winning author, with whom I had a outrageously wonderful 20 year marriage that ended with her death in late 1999 from cancer diagnosed the week of our wedding nearly 20 years earlier. Many posts on this blog are about her, our unlikely romance, and our life together, and still others consist of her writings. Information can be found at Julie Showalter FAQ. ~back~
- This will not be a case of Dueling Stories. Vows will be the only complete account I post of our wedding. ~back~
- Roughly, from the end of this week until the 20th or so ~back~
