“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.” YearsFirstsHas BeensHouseGoneSawsFocusWifeTreeFrontsHundredFirst TimeTiredMy WifeFinishedGrassAbandonedBurnedYardsDiggingLiliesDown The RoadPorchWalnutsFront PorchesWalnut Trees Author:Larry Towell
“I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.” LooksGoneWifeAdventureRiversHorseSouthMy WifeIslandsRegionsGoing AwayNew ZealandTibetanHorseback Author:Antony Gormley
“I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.” MadeHouseGoneWifeDebtMy WifeImpulseMaine Author:John Hodgman
“When you're a creative person and you create art with other people, whether you're married to them or not, you're going to run into creative conflicts. If you're a couple, certain inhibitions and barriers are gone. I have those barriers with other people, but I don't have them with my wife.” PeopleIfsPersonsArtRunningCertainGoneCreativeWifeCoupleConflictMarriedMy WifeBarriersCreative PersonInhibitions Author:Black Francis
“It is true, we do not like to lose a good, kind companion, a wife, a husband, a child, a brother, a sister, or any of our near and dear friends or relatives; but we have to do it, and it is right and proper that we should. They go a little before us; when we get there they will receive and welcome us and say, "God bless you, you have come at last." That is the way I look at it. I ex pect to strike hands and embrace my friends who have gone before.” WayShouldLooksKindChildrenLittlesHandsLastsLosesGoneWifeBrotherHusbandMy FriendsEmbraceDearStrikesWelcomeCompanionBlessExesSisterGod BlessDear FriendGod Bless You Author:John Taylor
“A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.” MeanStillsLyingGamesForgetPartyGoneWifeTeamDirectorsSittingCoachesManagersOwnersAthleticDiggingLife MeansRisking Your LifeGeneral Manager Author:Dan Jenkins