Yeah, yeah, yeah. Marketers humping your leg. Greeting card mush and standing in line for roses. F-ing Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore romantic comedies.

Quit being jaded. Just quit. For one day.

I like Valentine’s Day, so there! Love is worth celebrating. Not just the love I have for my patient, patient, patient wife, a woman as forbearing as she is beautiful, but love as a way of seeing each other, love as the best option we have.

It takes courage to lead with the heart. It’s okay to say it. Even if you can only manage to whisper it into one person’s ear.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Scruffy the Cat!