My wife has a secret life.

By day she is a Personal Trainer. She is really good at it. So good, in fact, that several of the doctors in the area send their patients to her to improve their balance, strength and mobility. It is a really cool profession that she loves.

But at night she is something completely different. How different?

That different! Peggy is a member of a musical comedy troupe called “Minnie Pause and the Hot Flashes.” The show is a faith-based show that takes famous songs from the 60s and 70s and changes the words to make them pertain to dealing with menopause. We have two different shows — one for ten months of the year and other for Christmas — and they are pretty hilarious. They perform for a lot of women’s groups, but the men who attend probably enjoy it more than the ladies.

For the past couple of years we have been doing 20-25 shows per year — I say “we” because the four husbands are the roadies that set up the stage and run the sound. It is a lot of work but it is truly a lot of fun, too.

When Peggy and I were dating she told me she had always had a dream of performing in plays when she was a young girl. As she got older she was involved with several productions as a musician, but she never got to be onstage. When this opportunity arose she asked for my opinion of whether she should do it. I told her, “You have always wanted to do it, so do it!”

She seemed surprised that I remembered that conversation from many years ago. When you love someone, you don’t forget their dreams.

Even when their dreams look like this…