SCRABBLE: Demoted To #2 In My Life; Move Over
I am thrilled and excited to announce my engagement to Adrienne Evie Victor Sheinwald of Southfield, Michigan. She says that she’s had a crush on me since she was 16 and I was her 22 year old Youth Director at Congregation Beth Shalom USY. We next crossed paths some 24 years later, each having gone through divorces. I was facilitating the personal growth seminar Adventures In Attitudes, while Adrienne was an attendee. We dated for about a year but drifted apart as people do when the timing is not right. I still had a lot of life lessons to learn, a lot of growing to do. I latched onto scrabble in the late 1980s. Scrabble has been my constant mistress for some 20+ years. I was fortunate to find wonderful special friends on my life journey. It’s not easy being green.
I had stopped believing the fortune tellers who like to say, “When you least expect it, Love will show up.” For a time I began to practice behaviors that I imagined to resemble ‘when-you-least-expect-it’. I tried to let the universe know that I was ready. But I guess that I wasn’t truly ready, until NOW.
And then, WHAM! BAM! ALIKAZAM! (and she doesn’t even play scrabble . . . . yet.) We plan to marry sometime this summer and reside in southern California.
Scrabble will now be #2 in my life;
let all persons know that there is a new #1.