For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 24, 2016

have fun with the sitter, kids

This is good to see

This one goes out to all the John and Elly bashers !

Will this be the night that April is conceived?

I remember well the night I met my husband. When I saw him, I had this quiet knowledge, like, “the sky is blue…the grass is green…he & I are going to be married…” However, when he proposed just 3 weeks later, I turned him down! It was only because I was only 17 and didn’t want to make any “adult” decisions until after I turned 18. He was patient and waited 8 days after my birthday to propose again. THAT time, I said “Yes”. We celebrated our 31st anniversary this month.

K.C., that’s sweet— and wonderful! Congratulations!

Lynn’s Notes:We did talk about our first meeting and how our lives together began. We had a lot of fun and many great adventures.

Re the Winnipeg/Portage La Prarie lady:(See last Saturday comments for updates)We can always speculate on how things would’ve turned out if we’d taken a different path. Recently, I was going through some old photos with my grand-dtr and a photo of a past girl-friend showed up!“Wow! Why didn’t you marry her?”“Well, if I had’ve, you wouldn’t be here!”“Whoa!”-I think it was Oliver Wendell Holmes that wrote something like “If John and Marsha hadn’t met at the Saturday night dog-fights in Aug. 1927, who would I be today?”

Some years ago I was heading to the shops with my then teenage daughter when a man across the street smiled and waved to me, and I smiled and waved back.

“Who’s that?” asked daughter, and I explained that when I was fourteen, I had been madly in love with the then young man. Her eyes bulged.

“What?” she gasped. “You mean . . . THAT could have been my Dad?”

Not many of us can look the same at forty-plus as we did in our youth!

Even this brings tears of one i let slip away a lifetime ago

When a friend described her best friend from childhood to me, I knew she’d be the woman I’d marry even before I met her face-to-face. Makes no more sense now than it did then, but our 25th anniversary will be in three months. One of the seemingly few right choices I’ve made…can’t say the same for her.

If even the smallest thing had changed years ago none of us would be here.

Jim KernerNot just Jews, but socialists, liberals, homosexuals, Protestant theologians, Roma, and a whole bunch of others.

An unabashedly sweet strip. They don’t happen very often, just as in real life.