I have a vivid memory of the end of the summer after I became engaged to my wife.  She spent the entire summer on a mission trip to Alaska.  You cannot understand the implications of this unless you know my wife.  Any temperature und 75 degrees is cold to her.  She spent the entire summer working with children and camps …

I remember buying a pair of Converse high-top sneakers when I was a freshman in college.  They were the coolest sneaker in the world.  Not only were they canvas Converse high-tops, but they were red!  Yeah … when I walked out on the floor with my chicken-legs and those red Converse high-tops on, all the action stopped!  Of course that …