I’m sitting across the dining table from my beautiful wife, radiant as ever. Our friend Dana, the owner of Alter Ego hair salon,  just left our house. Laughter and tears filled the kitchen as Dana unveiled Anne’s beauty in a new light.  Thank you, sweet Dana. 

  
A few hours earlier, Sue Scoggins, a dear friend and uber-talented artist whose work Anne adores, dropped in and surprised my bride with a painting of a neat little coastal town in Italy named Cinque Terre. It’s a place that, Lord willing, I’ll take Anne when we’ve run the thief out of town for good. Thank you, sweet Sue. 

  
At the end of a day when you have to shave off your hair, you can still have a good day…when friends give of themselves so generously. 

 So says Anne. And so says I. 

Love to you all.