Image by Chewy Chua via Flickr Its an inevitable part of life’s journey, I suppose, that when you’ve accumulated about 50+ years you start to see friends, family and co-workers pass permanently from your life with an ever increasing frequency. For me, it started with a high school friend who died far too prematurely in [...]
What a great pleasure it was to meet with some of my very old and special friends this past week. We are talking “long acquaintance” here … high school and garage band days. My friend Jim – I think its been something like 26 years since I’ve seen him. His brother Ken, bass player for [...]
In 1968 my father, with a freshly minted college degree, took a new job in the Denver area as a computer programmer. Moving from Albuquerque to Denver was a big change for the entire family, but a much larger change for my mother. She had lived her entire life in Albuquerque with a brief sojourn [...]
It was sudden and shocking. On Saturday we learned that the night before our good friend Dan collapsed in his home while preparing the evening meal. He was 47 years old and an athletic vegetarian without vices. A far better man than most, and I include myself in that lesser group. A great husband, father [...]