Our 30 year Anniversary

Not Clancy!  The humans...Jenna and Bruce!  [Pic in Alaska]

Thirty years of marital bliss.  Plus the first unsanctioned year, when we were practicing, if you know what I mean.  In the first 27 years, we lived in four states [NJ, AZ, AR, and WA], in which we owned nine houses and held too many jobs.  Living as nomads for the last three plus years.  Many dogs, coupla cats, and uninvited mice. 

How have we lived together thru all this change?  Without separating or straying?  After all, we have a lot of differences, in our communications styles and heights and numbers of head follicles.  And different genders, with all that entails.

Well, maybe we're more similar now than we were at first.  But more importantly, we share the same values of honesty and compassion and adventure and simplicity.  And a loving commitment to our relationship, through thick and thin.  [Not that we expect to see "thin" again.]

For example, we thought only of each other at ten years when Jenna was ill.  At twenty years when Bruce was unemployed.

Now we're retired, through a combination of luck, planning, and hard work.  Make no mistake about it, you need all three. 

Thirty years.  More to come....

Bruce