“I don’t want to write about this anymore. What should I write about instead?” I asked my wife as I was deciding to change the topic of this column.

“Write about how young I look!” she responded eagerly.

Whenever I ask my wife for suggestions on what to write about, they normally revolve around her. I still owe her a column dedicated to her cooking, and I’m sure she’d have more riveting suggestions if I were to ask again. Her suggestion from this week came from my original column beginning about an incident on my recent trip to Washington, D.C.

“‘Thanks for loving me despite my youthful looks,’ I told my wife via Facebook message after passing through airport security. The first security guard I encountered had asked for my driver’s license, not to verify my identification with the name on my ticket, but instead to verify I was ‘old enough to travel alone.’ As a 25-year-old on his first business trip, I was disappointed with what I thought I’d outgrew.”

Sera is used to me changing my mind halfway through a column and likes to encourage me to raise her celebrity status in the Albert Lea community at every opportunity she can get. Publicly she’d deny this, but the giddiness in her voice when she suggests that I write about her is undeniable.

I think we all seek out a certain level of celebrity in our own way. I definitely prefer recognition in my career. When I consider that there’s actually an audience of people who read what I write every week, I quickly decide that I prefer anonymity.

A few months ago I was in Albert Lea visiting a college roommate and realized that some of the people in the restaurant could possible know who I am, what my wife’s name is, where I work, and how I felt about seeing “The Fault in Our Stars.”

When writing this weekly column, I try not to write specifically about myself or Sera because I figure no one would want to read it. If I can leverage a story about us into a topic that relates to a larger audience, I feel better about filling up space in the newspaper every Friday.

That being said, Sera recently commented that the beautiful people reading about us don’t really know her since I’m the writer and she’s only the muse when she’s useful to my topic of the week. In honor of revealing more layers of my wife to the public, here’s what I’d write about if I were to write about her.

1. She’s the most easily excitable person I know. A video of baby elephants will take her from bored to squealing in three seconds or less. When I recently told her I was flossing again, she squeezed me so tight I almost couldn’t breathe.

2. She thinks she’s hilarious “all the time,” and because of that, I’m constantly laughing. Sometimes my laughter may be at her expense, but laughter certainly brings joy to our marriage. She’s been known to create ponytails out of our dog’s ears and recently picked me up from work wearing her wedding tiara. What can I say, I’m blessed with someone who makes me laugh.

3. When my wife cares about someone or something, she cares deeply. I’ve seen her care for her family members in a way far beyond her years. Her thoughtful gestures toward me have been present in my life every day since we’ve been married.

4. And finally, she’s been blessed with good genes and will certainly look young for her age for the rest of her life. After all, her mom is often mistaken for being her sister. Clearly I won’t be the only one looking like a visitor in the nursing home when we’re in our 90s and dominating at bingo.

Rochester resident Matt Knutson is the communications and events director for United Way of Olmsted County.