Staying in Touch

After I left Jacksonville, I lost track of almost everyone I had worked with there with two notable exceptions: Roddy Morris and John Balcom. Between 1973 and 1980 I made probably five trips back down to Jacksonville to visit one or the other (oddly, although I was good friends with both of them, they didn’t and don’t hang with each other).

John, after his divorce from Barb (with whom we’ve also kept in touch) came to visit once (probably around 1975) and we introduced him to an acquaintance of Linda’s and they hit it off instantly. They’re still together. Although we’ve exchanged Christmas cards over the years, it wasn’t until we moved to Ormond Beach (2003) that we hooked up with them again.

Roddy came to Chicago a few times in that period, too, and there was never a span exceeding five years that we didn’t at least talk on the phone. He and his wife (!! never thought that would happen) and Linda and I have been getting together every week for more than three years.

We've noticed at parties that both of us in the same room tends to empty the room of guests in short order. Type A?

Last updated: 22 March 2009