Memorial Day, Obon Festival, and Dia de los Muertos

Memorial Day was always one of the big family gatherings when I was growing up in Hardin, Montana in the… Read more Memorial Day, Obon Festival, and Dia de los Muertos

Go Greyhound, Go Retro–Part 2

Continuing the saga of how I got to Bayfield, Wisconsin for the week of July 4th without driving my car,… Read more Go Greyhound, Go Retro–Part 2

And Then There Were Five On Mother’s Day, 2021, my brother Robert was killed in a vehicle/train accident. It was… Read more Brotherly Advice. Four tidbits that guided me through life.

Have you ever gone through a learning sprint when you thought your brain was going to explode? Or you have… Read more Writing the Next Book: Researching and Wondering

How important are friends as we lay dying? What happens to friendships at end of life? As I have been… Read more Final Friends. As the world falls away, do our friends depart as well?

I’m not sure just when I learned about proximity friendship. It’s been years. But even back then, the term and… Read more Proximity Friendship or: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder versus Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

Boyfriends. Girlfriends. Writing friends. College friends. Husband friends. Couple friends. They come in all shapes and sizes, young and old.… Read more Who are your friends? The overlapping circles of friendship.

When I first started working, a female co-worker told me that a woman either had a romantic relationship with a… Read more Boy-Type Friends. Can men and women be friends?

One of the questions was, “Do you have friends?” The choices were 1. None; 2. One or two; 3. A few; 4. Many.

[Author’s note: I am stepping out of 1968 and back into 2020 for this post. As some of you know,… Read more Similarities between 1968 and 2020 include Presidential elections.