About thirty years ago I worked for IBM and kept seeing the name “Ewing” on overtime and expense checks…”who,” I asked, “could have a name like “Ewing?” Everyone said you couldn’t call him Ewing; his name is Rix. Ok?…………who’s Rix? After several months I met him and discovered that he had a great sense of humor, loved to kid around and was well like by all the guys AND men. However, he wasn’t taken with me. I then met my ex-husband, fell in love, got married and had children. AND left IBM and didn’t think a thing more about him.

About four years ago, I had left my ex and was striking out on my own. An old friend who had also worked in the branch talked into starting a database with ex and retired members of my former branch office of IBM with a goal of finally have a reunion. We started off with a very old list of names, which soon ended up with over 200 people with which we were communicating with either via e-mail or snail mail. One of the names that surfaced almost immediately was “Rix”. Ah hah! I remember that name. We communicated for several months and then out of the blue – “Do you want to go flying.” ME! In a small plane! UGH! But I bit the bullet and said yes. I called him at Danbury Airport one Sunday and set a date for the following Monday. When he showed up at my apartment, he looked exactly the same as he had 30 or so years ago…albeit a little heavier, a little grayer…but oh so handsome. Well…we flew out of Danbury after he had filled me in on the whys and where fore’s of flying what looked like a teeny, little airplane. Flew down the Hudson, circled the Statue of Liberty and had dinner at Caldwell Airport in New Jersey – all the while talking about former co-workers, flying, my job, his job, everything under the sun.

One thing led to another…he moved out of his mother’s home, moved into my apartment and then the debates began – should we get married – no we’d both had enough of that – we were just fine as we were. All of sudden one night we were talking about the “M” word and lo and behold we said, “We do”. We were married that July almost 3 years ago…life is good.

My kids like and respect him, my grandchildren love him, my parent like him…I love him!