Tag Archives: anniversary

I Turned 12 Today (in Blogger Years)!

Posted on July 30, 2026 by mitchteemley

Left: Me at biological age 12. I hated this photo the moment I saw it; with my cracked front tooth and sticky-outy ears, I decided I looked just like Mad Magazine’s poster boy Alfred E. Neuman! So I cut it … Continue reading →

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Twenty-One Years Ago This Week

Posted on February 5, 2026 by mitchteemley

The view from my office window before the snow got deep! Twenty-One Years Ago This Week My Family and I Moved… …from sunny SoCal to not-so-sunny Cincinnati. It was one of the coldest, snowiest winters Ohio had ever experienced. Yet … Continue reading →

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I Honestly Had No Idea

Posted on January 22, 2026 by mitchteemley

I Honestly Had No Idea Forty-Three Years Ago… I met a woman who would change my life forever. And almost entirely for good. The “almost” being purely subjective, since those are the parts of each other we haven’t finished sculpting … Continue reading →

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On This Date 40 Years Ago

Posted on September 15, 2025 by mitchteemley

On September 15, 1985, I married the woman who would change my life forever. Oh, I’d been in love a few times before, only to have the ooey-gooey feelings fade away. And by now I was a commitment-shy bachelor. But … Continue reading →

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Confession: I’m in Love With Another Woman

Posted on September 23, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week My wife and I just celebrated our 39th anniversary. Does that make this a bad time to tell her I’m in love with someone else? I mean, when an ex-friend introduced his wife to the woman … Continue reading →

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Yay, I’m Ten!

Posted on July 29, 2024 by mitchteemley

Today is my 10th Blogiversary! You’ll find some thoughts on my first decade in the blogiverse below this sampling of images from past posts. But to cut to the chase, it amounts to this: Thank you!!! “Wow!” That’s what another … Continue reading →

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Engaged!

Posted on March 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

Engaged  [inˈɡājd, enˈɡājd] Definition: A state of being firmly and continuously connected.  E.g. “A car cannot move until its gears are engaged; when they are disengaged, it ceases to move forward.” Thought for the Week My wife and I got engaged … Continue reading →

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38 Years Ago Today

Posted on September 14, 2023 by mitchteemley

On September 15, 1985, I married the most complicated, beautiful, insightful, godly, challenging woman I’ve ever met. Oh, yeah, and she also happened to be my best friend. Years later, I wrote a 1950s-style throwback song about her (think Buddy … Continue reading →

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Yay, I’m Nine!

Posted on July 28, 2023 by mitchteemley

It’s my ninth blogiversary! I had no idea when I started nine years ago that: 1) I’d ever have more than a handful of followers, 2) I’d develop real and meaningful friendships in the process, and 3) How supportive those friends would … Continue reading →

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Greedy Love

Posted on September 19, 2022 by mitchteemley

Pirate’s Cove, Newport Beach, California I normally do a Thought for the Week on Mondays, so this anniversary post is a bit off-point. Then again, maybe somewhere within these words you’ll find a relevant thought-for-the-week of your own. My wife … Continue reading →

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