To-Do-List For Real Love - Santa Monica, CA

Last week end we celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary, and I thought back to how we met more than 20 years ago. I thought about how on paper it looked like this relationship could never work. Not only because we lived on separate continents in different time zones and had grown up in different worlds. I thought about how my future husband checked only a few boxes I had come up with for my next boyfriend after the last breakup. I thought about how happy I still am that I did neither follow reasonable advice friends gave me nor serious warnings that I gave myself.
Then, I wrote this poem:
To-Do-List For Real Love
Go ahead! Make your list of what your next companion has to be:
Nice, strong, filthy rich
A traveler of the world
A savvy business woman
A race car driver with a mansion
A nomad creating poems in a van