…met at a book club for two that we formed while working together in the Braille and Talking Book Library. The first book we read together was Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
We’re still reading books together including everything that comes out by John Sandford, John Grisham and Robert Crais. That’s our fluff reading. We also read histories and books on disaster preparedness and memoirs and general non-fiction.
Hubby and I were married at the MSU chapel on August 24, 2002. Technically, we were married in the downtown Lansing courthouse on Augusts 23rd but we generally let that fact slide.
See, we were engaged for a year and immediately upon becoming engaged we knew that we wanted our officiant to be Dudley Elvery. Scott had been Dudley’s best man as well as his tandem bicycle riding partner in international competition. Dudley began his professional career as a Presbyterian minister. He left the ministry to become a marriage counselor and at the time of our engagement he was in the process of re-joining the ministry.
“Will that process be complete in the next year?” Scott asked.
“Sure,” Dudley replied.
As it turned out, the church secretary forgot to file a key piece of paper with the powers that be and Dudley was not “of the cloth” at the time of our marriage. So, we went to the courthouse and were married by a judge with our best man and maid of honor present on the day before the church service. Dudley helped us to exchange our vows but he wasn’t able to say the words, “I now pronounce you husband and wife.” It’s a secret to this day.
And I have to give a shout-out to Scott for how he acted when I went back to school in 2003. Our employer had decided to sponsor employees who wanted to pursue a degree in Library and Information Science. I decided to take them up on it. For the next 2 1/2 years I worked full time and went to school full time. During that time I did not clean a toilet or vacuum a floor. Scott took on all of the housework and didn’t complain a single time about the convenience foods that we ate day in and day out. He was 100% supportive and I couldn’t have asked for anything more.
I suppose I should say something about being married to someone with a disability but honestly I rarely think about it. Scott is blind; he lost his sight to glaucoma as a young man. The only time it’s an issue is when Scott can’t do his bit as the designated driver. I must admit to looking on with some degree of longing when he orders a second drink on pub trivia nights…
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