Twitter Poll for the Future Mr. & Mrs. Burell

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." -Mignon McLaughlin

dmcordell @cburell @katb @all Clay made remark about only getting married once. So Twitter poll: how long have you been married? In Sept 35 yrs.for us.

njtechteacher @dmcordell 20 years in September.

peneli @dmcordell 1 year 9 months... 2 years end of May for us. but then we dated for 8 years first.

garageflowers @dmcordell We're the new kids on the marriage block: married 4 yrs, 3 mos.

ethanbodnar @dmcordell zero

petrock @dmcordell RE: twitter poll on marriage - ~7.5 years.

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” –Shakespeare

The Greatest Refreshment in Life

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." ~Pablo Picasso

According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. Here, in words and images, is my Valentine...

to all my real life and online friends...

"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." -Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

to my children...

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family." -Haniel Long

and, of course, to my husband...


" Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The most beautiful view is the one I share with you." -Author Unknown

"Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee." -English saying used on poesy rings

Four Weddings

"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you." - Erich Fromm

Edna & Lou
June 22, 1946

Diane & Tim
September 1, 1973

Jackie & Scott
June 18, 2005

Ellen & Sean
September 8, 2007