KISS AND TELL

Every summer we went to the family cottage on a beautiful lake in the middle of nowhere.  Even though it was a remote and secluded location the lake became a bustling hive of people during the summer.  Vacationers came from all over the world so you never knew who you might meet on any given day.  This summer I was only there on the weekends as I was in University and had a job Monday to Friday.  There is one weekend I will never forget.  I came up on the Friday night just in time for the community bonfire.  The...

If you have ever travelled with someone you love then I trust you know that travelling can be a very romantic experience.  Once in awhile though the universe can align in such a way that no intentions could have created that moment.  Such an experience happened with me and the love of my life in the most unlikely of places, Guatemala.  Why do I say most unlikely of places?  Because it is a country with incredible amounts of crime and poverty.  We were actually there as a learning experience or an exposure trip, as some call it, where you learn...

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....

I had been married for 15 years when things fell apart.  We had been happily married and then one day my spouse looked at me and said I can't do this anymore.  To say it caught me off guard would be an understatement.  I thought we were happy, so my world crumbled in an instant.  I still to this day have no idea what the cause or issues were but it ended abruptly and harshly.  I was devastated, as you can imagine and one of my best friends had been informed of the impending doom, by my spouse, but listened to their...