Separate lives: Living apart together

My wife and I have been married for 54 years. It is not such an unusual accomplishment on the face of it except that for 20 years she worked in locations all over the United States and in many foreign countries for extended periods of time. Her assignments for a banking software company often required her to live in hotels or corporate apartments up to a year or more. While she was a road warrior I lived in St. Louis, part of the time in apartments and later in a house.  We chose both the apartment and house for their proximity to the St Louis airport. When she was in the United States she was allowed to come home only on weekends.  On 9/11 she was working in Kansas City and all flights were canceled. We alternated taking Amtrak back and forth until commercial flights were allowed again. Her overseas assignments often required her to stay abroad for months at a time.  The wear and tear of transcontinental travel made it difficult to return home more than two or three times a year. In spite of all this we have been married 54 years.

The World, Then & Now

Inspired by the AARP’s Calendar Art Competition Titled “Then and Now”.

A poem by Phillip Greene

 Jerry Falwell died

Well, I am finally able to get the SWAG blog feature to work on my balky computer. It had something to do with Java script. Anyway it now seems to be working. Prepare yourself for the onslaught. I have been blogging regularly on my book site: http://www.runningonemptybook.com. BP gave me lots of material and it looks like another spill in the Gulf may be developing to provide more cannon fodder. Stay tuned.

Phillip