dinner and a movie tonight

fall. 1986.

following a summer

of dating

guys who didn't come to the door

to speak to my parents

didn't take me home

to meet theirs
i literally made a list

of guys

i thought i might

like better

one, chris,

played football

didn't party

was definitely cute

his locker was on the first floor

near the library

i stopped to talk to him

one day on my way to

junior english

that sealed it

but we had no idea

i don't even remember the

conversation

but i know for a fact

that god put me there

that god put him there

that god has brought us

through fire,

refined

and will again and again

spring. 2010.

eighteen years of marriage

gosh