Friday, February 14, 2020

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

MY SOULMATE HEIDI HAS BEEN BY MY SIDE FOR 34 YEARS


We have dashed across the jet airplane runway that separates southern Spain from Gibraltar.

We have balanced the neighborhood delights of the 11th arrondissement with the legends and landmarks of Central Paris for our 30th wedding anniversary.

I watched proudly while Heidi delivered a key presentation at the American Institute of Architects' National meeting just after Michelle Obama gave her first post-White House public speech.

Heidi rooted for me while I was an award-winning reporter at the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper in Ohio and when I served as the senior policy advisor to the Chair of the Miami City Commission in our adopted hometown.

We took an all but condemned house in Little Havana and turned it into a showplace of both wheelchair access and preservation of a nearly 100-year-old home just footsteps south of famous Calle Ocho.

We discussed policy with Filipe, then the newly-married Prince of Spain and now King.

We have explored wheelchair access in Monument Valley, Moab, Zion, Bryce Canyon and other treasures of Utah.

We enjoyed the natural beauty of both Hawaii's Big Island and Costa Rica.

We often spend the Christmas week either in Mexico City or New Orleans.

We have documented universal design from London to Barcelona.

We have spent cumulative months exploring inclusive mobility in Los Angeles and New York.

We have sharpened our Spanish speaking skills from Santo Domingo DR to Andalucia.


We have a lot more on our plate.




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