Please forgive me for the length of this post. A journalist friend in Nebraska has cautioned me that blogs should be about five hundred words long. Well, this one has to be longer because the people I’m talking about would be short changed if I tried to tell their stories in five hundred words. So, once again, please bear with me.
The other day when I had almost nothing to do, during this pandemic, I took stock of the people I know. Wonderful women and men. I thought about the men I know – and how many of them have the same first name. Not all of them, of course. But, many. If I consider them in alphabetical order – I like alphabetical order (my spices are in alphabetical order) – this is what I find.
Bill lives across the street on the corner. He has the sweetest dog Chloe. She is tiny and spunky. He always offers to help. I know that he helps a friend – another widow (I really don’t like that word) who lives across my side fence.
Bob, husband of my daughter and father of my two grand children. Clearly, he loves his family and wants the best for them.