"Absent Friends"

Too often I find myself thinking of calling and then remember suddenly that there's no longer any working number for that kind of conversation.

It's not that we left things unsaid or that our last meeting was unpleasant. (As I recall, our last words involved nothing more than each of us trading a story and signing off by telling the other that we loved one another).

No, it's just that every so often I wish I could call, trade gossip and update you on all the seriously amazing and wonderful things that are happening in my life.

I know you'd want to hear about them.

Happy Birthday Mom.

You'd have been 66 years old today.