I Won't Wait for Her Next Weekend
My fiancee, Joanie Halter, and I live in the same city, less than five miles apart. And yet, we barely see each other more than twice a month.
Whenever I ask when she's free, she always gives me the same answer. "I've just been really busy with work lately."
Then, by chance, I come across her travel records. Out of the 52 weekends in the past year, she has bought plane tickets for 48 of them.
The destination is always the same country, where her junior from school, Forrest Jacobsen, lives.
She always leaves first thing Saturday morning and comes back Sunday night, rain or shine, sometimes even more punctual than she is about going to work.
Our most recent date was yesterday, at the conv