DEDICATED TO THREE VERY AWESOME “BOYS”…RAY, DAVE AND LOBO. XXX They called it “Boys Nite Out.” They weren’t really boys anymore except maybe in their minds and possibly in the way they behaved on that particular night. Their friendship began as three guys who worked together. They eventually crossed the invisible line that took them from work friends to just plain good guy friends. It’s been about 35 years now so their friendship has withstood the test of time. They’ve…
The first clue that something wasn’t quite right with my friend Sarah was one day a year before this story took place when she and her husband, both good frieds of ours came for a visit. The doorbell rang and there she was standing before me with a big smile on her face and the very first thing she said to me was, “I’m not wearing a bra.” Hmmm, that puzzled me. So not like her very sophisticated self. This…
I witnessed an assault that no one could stop. Everyone who knows her, cares about her and loves her watched as Alzheimer, a known thief, attacked her brain and robbed her of every sensible thought, every memory and stole who she was, leaving her empty. We’ve known her almost forever. She was in her early 60’s when we began to notice a change in her words and behavior. We knew something was wrong and feared what that something was. As…
What made me think just because someone shines on the Silver Screen, they know how to eat soup? I’ll bet you’ve never given how a movie star consumes soup one thought, me neither. Until I saw and heard a movie-star slurp. It happened one evening in the Mendocino Hotel, up-north California. My daughter, her husband, Lobo ’n me were spending a week near Mendocino at an awesome complex of homes atop cliffs above the Pacific called The Sea Ranch. But…