An era ended last night with the retirement of Andy Rooney from his 33-year, weekly, stint on CBS’ 60 Minutes. I grew up watching Andy Rooney and I always enjoyed his writing. He wasn’t pretty. He wasn’t good TV. He was a good writer who happened to be on television.
Over the Summer, Janna and I were thrilled to spend another married year together as we celebrated our anniversary. Our marriage is the number one greatest achievement of my life. Sharing your life with someone is a massive challenge and every single day the relationship changes and re-breathes and moves again in sometimes unimaginable ways as once expressed in — Promise Before Dying — published in Urban Semiotic on July 18, 2005:
Then she asked me if I would bury her under a tree with shade when she died.
I promised her I would.
Then she asked me if I would bury her under a tree with shade that had leaves that change colors in the Fall from red to purple to orange.
I promised her I would.
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