Finally tonight: love and why Valentine's Day is a good time to remember that romance is only the beginning.

It's wonderful to celebrate romance, to exchange cards and flowers, candy and gifts. It's wonderful to express romance in just the right words or even better with just the right silence. It's wonderful to live in romance, the looks, the sighs, a heart that melts at the mere thought of another.

But romance is best when it blossoms into care and commitment, into sacrifice and selflessness, into depth and dependability -- in essence, when it blossoms into love.

While love can be felt, it's not a feeling, it's an action. Love is better as a verb than a noun, and must be expressed in the "doing" before the "saying" has any credibility.

The heights of romance can be wonderful to visit, but in the depths of love you can spend a lifetime.