Pocketful of Memory Cards

I recently came across this Laura Miller quote: The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.   I really don’t remember the first book I fell in love with but my favourite childhood book was “ Go, Dog. Go !”  For the uninitiated, it's a "Beginner Book" about a bunch of dogs, meant to teach kids about colours, numbers and opposites.  Several times through the story, a stylish poodle and a beagle-ish dog cross paths.   Each time they meet, the poodle asks the beagle “Do you like my hat?”.  Each time he says he does not.  Each time they part unhappily until their final meeting, when she is wearing a very impractical hat.  It’s more of a basket really, piled with candy canes, a dog bone, fishing rods with objects dangling from it’s hooks... there’s even a potted plant.   “Now do you like my hat?” she asks. He replies, “I do, I do, I like that party hat.”   And...

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. –  Robert Anderson We're 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. -Dr. Seuss The photo at the top of page was taken circa 1984. When I came across it recently, I knew I had to re-create it for our next anniversary.  Today we've been married for twenty seven years. The regulars in the crowd won't be surprised that my husband still owns a shirt he wore almost thirty years ago.  He figures he's had it since 1980 and when we were preparing for the photograph the other  night, he told me he wants to be wearing it when he's "popped in the oven".  I have a feeling it may survive cremation. I'm sure the sweater in t...