Today is my wife and I's twentieth anniversary. Seems like yesterday we got married in a small civil ceremony with a few close family and friends.
Doesn't seem all that long ago I met her by chance sitting in the Student Center at Parma High School in early October 1987. She was 16, I was 17 and I can honestly say it was destined to be "forever". While we have had the normal ups and downs of any relationship it's been marked by three things. Family- Friends- Forgiveness… Without each of these three things we'd not be here today looking back, reflecting and celebrating.

Family, without family your doomed to blandness. Family makes us who we are. Love em, hate em, or somewhere in-between it's who "we are" and where we come from. Since we've been married, we have our family now and I am sure my kids (I know) think I am bat shit crazy, but it's who I am and like it or not, who they will become someday.

Friends, are the ones we seek solace in when our crazy families drive us to tears or we experience loss. The first ones we call with good news and the ones barging thru the door in crisis to make it all good. I once heard a "friend" is a single soul occupying two bodies. I can say this of my wife and also my closest friends. Without them I am nothing.

Forgiveness, I have done and said some really, really mean and or dumb things in my life and in my relationship with Tracy. Without forgiveness I'd be alone for eternity. I am thankful my wife understands this one better than all the others!


Twenty years still and it still seems like yesterday. I see and pray there's twenty, thirty hell forty more God willing.






Todays PaD- it's the same perfume she was wearing when I met her and she's wearing my Great Grandmothers wedding ring… #luckyman