Today Bob and I have reason to celebrate -- it's our wedding anniversary. When people ask, I don't mind telling them that we met on the Internet, as it happens, exactly 10 years ago today. To be more accurate, we met on a community BBS, a now-extinct bulletin board service run by TVOntario, which is a public educational television channel. It was a meeting of minds and interests embodied in many emails that led to an actual meeting and then, well, you know how it turned out.

We both had histories, as people do, but I think we both had optimism, too, that life had possibilities we hadn't explored yet. And we were right! We've travelled to some lovely places and worked together and faced some scary stuff and there's lots more to do. Lots more to celebrate!

Bob agreed to let me post this picture of him (1988) if I mentioned that you should check out his site and, if possible, click on one of his Google ads. I told him that was pretty crass.