Category Archives: Friendship

Today my longest-term friend, Lois Frangella Williams, turns 70.   Lois and I were across-the-street-neighbors from birth through highschool.  We were inseparable as children,  not really developing individual interests until highschool. I was long into my adult years before I realized how … Continue reading →

   My dear friends, Jim and Sally Davis, visited me this week.  They live in Sacremento, but were visiting their daughter in Wisconsin, so they hopped on the bus to Midway, and I picked them up there. Today we reversed … Continue reading →

  My friend Lois, with whom I grew up in upstate New York, is here for a visit.   I’m so excited to have her here, as this is something we’ve been planning for several years.  Each time it looked like … Continue reading →

      Remember back in February when I ran out to LA to attend a baby shower?   Erika and Brandon are very close friends of Di and Dave’s.  The shower was wonderful  fun, and not the least of that for me … Continue reading →

It was interesting being back in the classroom.  I can’t believe how tired I was from only four hours a day of work!   It is, as it happens, a very intense four hours.  The students get two ten-minute breaks, but … Continue reading →

Lloyd, my close friend’s husband, died during the night.   Lloyd was one of those people who knows everyone, never met a stranger, and was very involved in community affairs, particularly his local fire department.   The fire chief happened to stop … Continue reading →

  A couple of days ago I mentioned that a close friend’s husband had a reccurence of a cancer that was supposedly cured in  1999.   He had passed his five year mark…….and isn’t that supposed to be the magic number … Continue reading →

My friend Daphne died just before Christmas.  She was only 43 years old, and, yes, it was cancer.  What an ugly, unspeakable affliction, taking beautiful people in the prime of their lives.   Daphne and I met in 1994, when … Continue reading →

Our friends Pam and Geoff arrived last night in time for an old-fashioned pot roast dinner.  These are the kind of friends who seem like family. We know them that well, have been through that much with them.   It … Continue reading →