Problems are for Solving

Today is Theresa’s birthday. The Big 34. Yep. I married a younger woman. She wasn’t even 21 yet when we got married.

Theresa loves to learn. She devours books about topics that would bore the socks off me. And then she tells me about what she read and makes it interesting. Topics like the management of waste water for cities and soil conservation. I’m serious.

And today I am very thankful and glad to be married. And very thankful that after 13+ years she continues to put up with me.

Happy Birthday, my love. You continue to be my best friend and the one I most look forward to coming home to. Thank you for these years of marriage and for giving our children your love for learning new things. May you never cease to love to learn, and may we continue in our endeavors to learn to love.

It’s true: AIDS is nature’s awful retribution for our tolerance of immoderate and socially irresponsible sexual behavior. The epidemic is the price of our permissive attitudes toward monogamy, chastity, and other forms of extreme sexual conservatism. (the rest at the NY Times web site)

This is an excerpt from a book entitled, More Sex is Safer Sex by Steven E. Landsburg. [I'll note in passing that because of the number of ways my last name was changed by immigrating ancestors, it's entirely possible I'm related to this fool]. I followed a link yesterday morning from a doctor’s blog and was appalled at what I saw there. Continue Reading »