No, no, not that one.

This one.

Venice, Italy. The Bridge of Sighs. Friday, September 12, 2025.

We’re in a gondola, waiting to pass under this bridge and re-enact a crucial scene from A Little Romance. Go watch the movie, or if you’ve seen it already, bring it to mind, and you’ll understand.

That’s not our gondola in the photo, of course. We did not hire a photographer, as they were all exhausted from some kind of celebrity wedding that had occurred in this city a couple of months prior to our residence.

But never mind that. Back to this story.

Once you get the scene from A Little Romance in your mind, you’ll just have to imagine me and my extraordinary wife Alice in a gondola in Venice, on that same quest. Well, except we were not adolescents, and I didn’t need to push the gondolier into the canal. He did his duty, gently rowing our craft under this fabled bridge. But the same quest, yes.

So yes, our vows reaffirmed on that magical day, I say to Alice on this day, July 14th, 2026, happy 47th anniversary! We’ll always have Venice.