FROM OCEAN PARK, WASHINGTON

My bride and I are near the north tip of the Long Beach pennisula within sight of the world's longest beach. She is attending the Christian Writer's Workshop held each year on this weekend. Sessions. lessons, and hours of writing strategy have filled her day; I bummed about town checking out shops, bookstores, and local highlights. Now I am at the "Methodist Camp Center" where the event is held to join her and thirty others for dinner and entertainment. We are staying nearby in the beach house of friends as we did last year for our anniversary weekend. This year marks forty-five years of together and we are still deeply in like, in love, and , well, ... more still. Let me just say to all you youngsters, you all have much to look forward to in your senior years. We are well, happy, intrigued by the various wonders in the world, and very proud and appreciative of our children and grandchildren. We think we will be home Tuesday evening unless we decide to "elope" this time. God is good and He has blessed us beyond count.