Part Thirteen – Engagements

🎶 Heart beats fastColors and promisesHow to be brave?How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?But watching you stand aloneAll of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow July 19th 2025 | Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church, Santa Ana (Feast of Archangel Michael) I figured I had to throw in a song lyric that captured [...]

Part Ten | A Walk to Remember

Date: January 1st, 2025 Location: Redlands, California As you probably have already guessed, yes, we did another paint night. Before that though, we went a walk together which had some laughs and a mini scare that ended up turning into a walk to remember. We decided to go to the University of Redlands and walk [...]

Part Eight | The Priceless Gift

Date: December 2oth, 2025 Location: Mission Inn, Riverside, California We all have baggage. It's a matter of fact. No one is perfect. One way I knew early on that she was my person was her response to something very painful that I told her. Let me set the scene. It was around Christmas time. 5 [...]

Part Seven | Escaped

Date: December 15th, 2o24 Location: The Escape Game| Irvine, California Having come off the high of paint night with her, I wanted to do something a bit more exciting. One thing that I thought she may enjoy was an escape room. It would also be exciting to see us working together and it would give [...]

Part Six | A Night full of Color

Date: December 9th, 2024 Location: Purple Easel | Ontario, California This was a night full of color and I'm not just talking about the paintings. So this one gets a bit dramatic (or at least I think it does). I had planned for us to do a paint night together as one of our dates [...]

Part Five | Wicked Scenes

Date: December 8th, 2024 Location: Harkins Theater, Redlands, California An aside: You may have figured it out by now but the ending of the part often gives a spoiler or hint as to what is coming next. So, I'm not a huge musical fan or even really go to the movies at all but something [...]

Part Four | The Tour

Date: November 30th, 2024 Location: Loma Linda, California This was, what some may call the first "date". I had asked her to show me around Loma Linda for a program that I was thinking of applying to. I couldn't really think of any other excuse to see her but I figured that was the best [...]