New Year's Eve 2024
Except for getting COVID for the first time in February, 2024 started off as just business as usual until... Three Funerals and a Memorial Actually, it was two funerals and two memorials, but if you were aware of movies in the 90s, you'll get the 30 year old reference to Three Weddings and a Funeral. (Which I never actually saw.) Heidi One of my parents' long-time friends, Heidi, had a multi-year battle with ovarian cancer that she fought valiantly until she couldn't. She died in mid-March. What this has to do with me is that I had always admired her from the first time my parents and I went to Columbus to visit her and her husband when I was about thirteen. She had a witty, fun personality, she loved cats, and she and Kevin planted the seed for me to always seek out fun and interesting local restaurants. As it happened, Will and I moved to the same neighborhood of Columbus that they live in. Heidi wasn't particularly religious, so her husband hosted an informal memor...