I am grateful for my traveling partner. What a blessing it is to have someone to travel through life with. I have now been married longer than I have been single, and I am more “Us” than solitary “Me.” Life is not easy, and marriage itself is one of life’s challenges, but I can’t imagine going through this life without my wife at my side. Debra has endured the early years of my becoming an architect, the financial challenges, the lay-off in our first year of marriage, the many career moves, the legal battles, my vocational confusion, my intense mood swings….all the ups and downs of my becoming an adult. Now we find ourselves traveling into the adventure at 303 Navasota. We have journeyed through another house renovation and are about to start a new building project. We are continuing to build two sons into men, and today we celebrate Jude’s twenty-first birthday. We are meeting new friends and building new relationships with those who live around us. Through it all I’m grateful to have a friend to travel with these thirty years.
The Morton Arboretum, Downers Grove, Chicagoland