Marriage is:
one apartment eviction notice and a one hundred days of one hundred degrees adventure
two amazingly creative children in the midst of two Masters degree programs
nursing me back to health following three surgeries — even when you’re pregnant —
only four winning seasons of Royals baseball
seven ridiculous pets
surviving six recording projects and nine book escapades
ten different places we’ve called home, each serving Mexican cornbread
fourteen jobs trying to make ends meet
scraping the ice off of one of the seventeen vehicles we’ve owned
and after twenty years,
deeply grateful you’ve been at my side
through everything.
