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A good time

There are good reasons and bad, reasons that are easy to understand and others that are harder to appretiate. When you put them together you get someone who’s found it hard to find joy in anything. You get me. Saturday night was an exception. Two days later I’m back in the emotional valley, but the memory of our evening out still has the power to make a smile. We’d done a…
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Going out

Cheryl and I rarely go out alone. We have all the usual excuses: kids, work, and the like. But we also have another thing: an unexplainable attraction to misfortune. I won’t bore you with an unabridged list, but here are some of my favorites: During a summer break from UF, not long after we started dating, we planned a trip to the northeast. A few days before we were supposed to leave I…
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More on the wedding thing

If you’re one of the one or two folks who’ve been coming around for a while, this picture may look a little familiar… I used an edited version of the above picture as part of the theme for an early version of our web site. Cheryl loved this photo (below)… for about 1.23 seconds. Then she smacked me for closing my eyes. I wonder if I could Photoshop me some open ones? It…
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Congratulations?

I hadn’t thought about it before, but a card that came in the mail today struck me as odd. “Congratulations!” it said. I’ve said it to other people on their anniversary – many times. But today, at this moment, it seems off… somehow not quite appropriate. It makes wedding anniversaries sound like some kind of endurance award, doesn’t it? You don’t…
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