A Sad Farewell

The other day, my husband, Richard, received a shocking phone call. Our friend, James, was dead at fifty-four years old. When my husband told me, I just looked at him in disbelief. James couldn’t possibly be dead…not old James as I lovingly called him....

A Memory That Lasts Forever

Your first love may not be the person you spend the rest of your life with, but the memory of that love stays with you forever. It is 1969 and I am sitting in the Miami Beach public library studying for a college exam. I look up and there is a young man across the...