ABOUT

Cheryl & Marsha

We’re white. We’re women. We’re lesbian. We’re married. We have two fur babies – Olivia and Sophia – whom we rescued at the start of COVID.

Spanning more than 30 years, we’ve been colleagues, friends, and then married. We’ve travelled for work and fun across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. These journeys challenged our views and widened our perspectives of people, places, and purpose.

Now we’re retired and on a new journey to deepen connections to earth, each other, and everything we encounter along the way.

Come What May

This occasional blog is precisely that – upon occasions that evoke words to illuminate experiences not so much to chronicle them as to express their tug at balance. Past and present, good and not so good, happy and sad, profound and mundane in the refrain of come what may.

We titled this blog “Come What May” because it’s the signature song from the movie, Moulin Rouge, which we saw several months before we became a couple. It’s a bizarre, quirky, yet profound cinematic musical about love, perhaps forbidden, but love none the less. Little did we know it would be a defining moment in our friendship.

Above all, the movie stuck with us for the song (check out the lyrics) and for the quote, “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” Both of these speak to being grounded in something greater than ourselves and constantly striking the delicate balance that life requires.

Come what may captures the essence of who we are and how we choose to live our lives together each day, embracing whatever comes, and keeping our love for each other, our friends, and our world as close to balance and harmony as possible.