The videotape
This is a hard one to admit even though I can do it anonymously. This happened a few years ago and it took some time to understand all that happened and how I felt about it. Here goes: My wife Niki and I were in the habit of walking around our neighborhood in the early evenings after work. We would usually stick to one of 3 routes. We would keep track of the appearances and disappearances of for-sale signs in the neighborhood, especially ones within 3 or 4 blocks of our house. We had noticed a house about 4 blocks away had gone on the market. We kept an eye on it because we liked the secluded back yard and the long covered porch in the front of the house, and we thought that maybe …