My Friend Dick

It’s five a.m., and in an hour, I am leaving for the airport to fly to Florida from Virginia to visit my friend Barb. Three weeks ago, Barb’s husband, Dick, passed away suddenly, and both Barb and I, and so many others, are devastated by this loss. Like Barb, Dick was also a close friend of mine. They are so well known to me that I actually wrote a book, The House of Life, about their lives. It was published 10 years ago, in 2016.