I'm wondering if leaving my wife little notes in an attempt to be romantic is too cliché

Some months ago, I began writing short notes to Terry and leaving them in places she will find them.

The challenge is not figuring out what to write, but rather finding new places to hide the notes.

There are only so many spots in our house where I can leave something and know with certainty she will find it. Thus, most of these have ended up:

• In the bathroom drawer where she keeps her toothbrush
• In the little cannister of coffee she stores in a kitchen cupboard (RECENT VARIATION: I put one in the K-Cup holder of our coffee maker.)
• On the driver's side seat of her car
• Resting on or near the TV remotes

Any place more creative than that and I'm afraid it will be years before she finds a particularly well-hidden one.

I guess I should start asking each week whether she has found the most recent note, because I rarely get confirmation that these little slips expressing 37 years' worth of feelings for her have actually been noticed.

I'm fairly certain she sees them all, and I'm fairly certain she appreciates them. It's just relatively rare for us to talk about them.

Maybe that's how it should be. Maybe a small act of love like this is best left unacknowledged. Maybe, like so many things in a long-term relationship, the best parts don't need to be talked about.

Or maybe she wonders why the crazy buffoon she married keeps wasting the small pieces of notepaper we keep on top of the refrigerator with corny two-sentence love letters.

You know, I really should ask her.