Like Biscuits

Dar and I watched the episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown and his grandmother make biscuits together. It's a really cute episode and I've made Alton's biscuits from it a couple times -- they're delicious. At one point during the episode, the pair discusses how cut biscuits should be arranged for baking. It turns out that they should be touching each other on the baking sheet -- shoulder to shoulder. That way, as one biscuit rises during baking, it pulls the adjacent ones up with it, and, in turn, the adjacent biscuits also help it rise. This yields taller biscuits than if you baked them spread apart.

They help each other up.

Today is Dar's and my anniversary. Seventeen years together, with good days and bad. Mostly good, but the bad ones have been pretty terrible. We aren't perfect people, and I, as only she knows, am prone to some pretty epic bouts of self-doubt bordering on self-loathing. I also tend to be selfish and stubborn. Still, through 17 years of this and more, Dar has stood by me as my wife, partner, and best friend. She has been my biggest cheerleader and best advisor. She is also my biggest defender, and she is damn cute to boot!

As we move onto this new phase of our life, we will need each other more than ever. Other than saving for a self-directed future someday, we are purposefully not making plans more than six months out. We're getting used to living with less and we shed our non-essential belongings. This has been a massive change. For now and the foreseeable future, we plan to stay in Mexico. What does the future hold? Maybe South America, Europe or beyond.

Remote work for me makes this possible, but without Dar, I wouldn't have the bravery or ambition to make it so. We are consciously creating the life we dreamed of together, and for that, I am truly fortunate.

"We're like biscuits!" has been one of our favorite phrases since we saw that episode of Good Eats. Let's be like biscuits for another 17 years and beyond.

Happy Anniversary, Dar Dar!

Presently somewhere,

Andy