Category: Love Stories

• Forty Years Is A Long Time

  Forty years ago, Jackie Jackson changed her last name to mine. In our wedding ceremony, we each held a burning candle and touched our flames to the wick of a third candle between us. When it caught fire, we blew out our individual candles to symbolize two becoming one. Our lives together have been a…

  Phil Burns

  August 13, 2023

  Life Happens, Love Stories

• The Girl With Dirt On Her Face

  

  A photo of Jackie nailed itself to the back wall of my heart months before I even met her. To me, she was an unknown girl, half reclining, half sitting, in the back of a truck. She wore jeans, their blue color obliterated, painted over with a thick layer of tan colored dust. Her face…

  Phil Burns

  August 14, 2021

  Life Happens, Love Stories

• Horsing Around!

  

  I guess this old horse reminds me of me! I have so many flaws and I need second chances, and third chances and forth . . . In years, Jackie has given me 37 chances. In days, hours or minutes she has put up with me and all my failings so often, that even a…

  Phil Burns

  August 13, 2020

  Love Stories

• On Time, But Missed The Train

  

  Waiting on the platform was so hot! I was soon soaked with sweat and we still had half hour to wait. All the benches on our side were ablaze with sun. No way was I going to wait there! I knew the northbound side was just as hot, but “northbound” sounded cooler, and the benches…

  Phil Burns

  August 13, 2016

  Life Happens, Love Stories