Mostly I never loved celebrating my birthday, but my friend Cathy talked me into it. I never acknowledged anniversaries much either—this coming from a string of flopped relationships. Who wanted to brag about a mess? Clearly not me. However, I’m in a good one now and I celebrate every year—and every day.
Despite my resistance to noting these kinds of milestones, I have been really pretty good at acknowledging Counios and Gane’s successes, observing when we win awards, were finalists or had accolades. I always pause to cherish those moments, sitting in gratitude. I’ve even raised a glass to problem-solving our stories and the end and beginning of each novel we’ve written. Dave has credited me for my ability to pause and celebrate. While I would often honor our hard work Dave was off working on the next idea. I think it takes both those actions to keep Counios and Gane going—gratitude and forward motion.
Since David’s suggestion to write about our anniversary in our monthly newsletter, he’s messaged a few times trying to remember specifics of when we started scripts, novels, blogs,—trying to get the date down. We’ve both thought of memories over the years and the stops and starts of our writing journey. This partnership is just shy of a decade and as I write this I think Wow! That was a fast trip! We’ve done a lot and worked hard on our creative endeavors as writers.
It’s been a journey I do not regret in the slightest. I operate a lot by instinct which is why when David asked me to script write it was a yes. And when he asked me to write novels it was a yes again. I just knew I should. By saying yes, I have learned too much to list. I’ll continue to say yes to our storytelling career and to David because if it wasn’t for him I don’t think I’d be a published writer.
Thank you, David, and happy anniversary.
As always, thank you for reading lovelies.
Angie Counios 
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