It's Never Too Late to Learn

Last weekend my wife called me over to show me something on her phone. She was going through her old emails and came across some emails we had passed back and forth, from when we first met. She and I met in a club and went on a couple of dates, but then I deployed to Afghanistan with the Army. We continued to converse via email mostly, and phone where possible - this was before the days of FaceTime etc. - and the rest is history. That was in 2006, and 20 years later we're still very happily married with a couple kids. Anyway, upon reading the emails I immediately wanted the ground to swallow me up. Not because they were overly mushy or lovey dovey (they were), but because the spelling and grammar were horrendous. I was never a particularly academic kid - in fact, I was mostly disengaged in school and really didn't try. I was clever, but I never applied myself. I was too busy being a stupid teenager. As a result, my written English was awful (it's still not great now, but it's better).…