KISS AND TELL — love

I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere where everybody knows everyone's business. I met my wife in high school and we got married and had kids and have an immensely deep love for each other that a lot of people don't experience or get in their life.  But every love story has it's valleys as well as it's mountain tops.  And today my story for you is a deep valley, one that most never come out of in their relationships.  It was many years ago now but my wife who is a very smart, educated, hard...

The photo above was in our early days of marriage but far enough in we had truly learned to love each other.  That learning never ends even to this very day.  We got married because our hormones lead to us having our first child.  And looking back we both without hesitation will say we didn't love each other when we got married.  The cool part of the story is we fell in love living together and raising our first child.  By the time this picture was taken we were very much in love but shall we say inexperienced in love....

So my spouse and I have always loved the beach.  We both grew up going to the beach in our area and that appreciation continued into adulthood.  We would often spend our evenings after work taking a quick drive and strolling along the beach.  Something about the salt water, the waves, the sand between your toes that just oozes peace.  Our beach visits varied from walking on the sandbars, sitting on the sand, maybe the occasional swim, exploring sea life, searching for sea glass and sometimes unexpected adventures.  Such as the time we went on an adventure that I never...

I met the love of my life and it was in the most unlikely of places.  I honestly wasn't even looking it just sort of happened, which is amazing considering that out of the hundreds of millions of potential people that could have been it was this one in particular that brought me life.  The greatest challenge though is they can be pretty hard on themselves feeling not worthy and like a failure but since I have fallen in love with them it is far less than it was before.  The relationship is not perfect by any means.  They can...

Terry's Tales Episode 13One of the common practices for couples is to have photos taken together.  This was true even before photos were invented, back when portraits would be done of a couple or family.  There is probably no time greater than right now that couples can take an exorbitant amount of photos.  When we were younger digital was just starting to become available and most of us still had the old roll of 36 in our cameras.   To see your photos you had to take them to a store to be developed which was usually a few days....