Tira Rogers:  

Love Married the man of my dreams after dating him for 7 years. This year (2010) marks the 20th anniversary of our first date. I don't know how he's managed to put up with me this long, but I'm grateful for having met him and wouldn't change a thing. Life Sam and I live in Kentucky just outside Cincinnati and love it. We have no two-legged children, but we have three of the canine variety we've rescued. I can't imagine life without multiple dogs. We recently lost our beloved black Lab to malignant melanoma, so there's some sadness around our house right now, but the three we have left remind us how much joy they give us during their too-brief lives. Travel Traveling domestically and internationally is one of our passions. Whether it's a road trip through the back roads of Indiana organized by Scenic Road Rallies, a trip to Mayan ruins, or a few days in the Big Apple, we're game. Train rides through Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, and England? Sure! Hot-air balloons over Arizona? You betcha! A helicopter ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon? What fun! Biking across the Golden Gate Bridge and around the peninsula through Sausalito and Tiburon 16 miles before taking a ferry back to San Francisco? An absolute joy that left me with a sore butt for a week. Sam driving on the "wrong" side of the road in Ireland? Disconcerting but exhilarating! (As an aside, Sam did a terrific job in Ireland and Scotland driving on the left side of the road. It was the unfamiliarity of being on the left side that was so disconcerting to me. But he never, ever, tried to drive on the right side of the road, and this was even with driving a manual transmission car where the floor shifter was in his left hand instead of his right. He's brilliant!) Work and Education I was a late bloomer. I attended LSUS right out of high school but dropped out after majoring in (sequentially) math, Engl...Expand for more