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    Twenty-Six Years

    We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Supposedly that is a Dr. Seuss quote.  Did he really write that or does Pinterest just say so?  I don’t know but I like the quote.  I think there is a lot of truth in it. My husband and I celebrated our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary this week. We didn’t do anything big or amazing.  Life is busy and crazy as usual.  We left the kids at home and went out for Chinese food.  We…

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    Tips for a Happy Marriage

    Today is our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.  I thought about putting up a picture from our wedding but my husband is a private person and wouldn’t want that so you will just have to imagine it. If you picture me with a perm and wearing a gown with a big bow in the back you will be right on target.  In my defense, everyone had perms in 1990 and all wedding gowns had huge bows. So, how have we stayed married for twenty-five years, you ask?  (Let’s just pretend you want to know because I want to talk about it.  That is how this blogging thing works.)  So here are my…