View from the North 40: Like first place in the also-ran bracket

Although the most significant contribution to what has kept my husband and I together for the past 200 years (rounded up) is lack of imagination about what else to with ourselves, we have a few other gimmicky tricks, too. One of the biggies is this: Sometimes you have to rise up to the occasion, leave your happy place and do something beyond the normal for your spouse.

May all the saints and dragon-slayers help us, but this weekend I have to be the trophy wife.

John’s class reunion is this weekend. All weekend. Which started Tuesday.

A group of classmates held the last organizational meeting,...