Marriage. What a wonderful and mysterious institution! My parents were married 74 years ago today, on my mother’s twentieth birthday. By the time I was aware of her celebrating both birthday and anniversary on the same day, she was saying how foolish she had been. But she’d always said she didn’t want to be a … [Read more…]
Steve and I had a lovely trip to Key West last week. We’ve been often enough that we don’t waste a lot of time figuring out where things are. The many free maps available help to remind us of locations we’ve been to before. And we’ve tried so many great restaurants there that our challenge … [Read more…]
Yesterday morning for breakfast we were seated by a delightful couple from Canada. We often try to judge if strangers are our age or older or younger. This couple was probably a bit younger, but not much. Ann and Brian appeared to be a settled, older couple relaxing after retirement. In the course of the … [Read more…]
“What? Another language! I have enough trouble with English. You know that!” Charlie looked at us belligerently as we introduced Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages to our “Building Strong Marriages” class. Even though the idea of love languages fascinates me, I knew we had to sell the idea to Charlie. It seemed that this … [Read more…]
