I’m lucky in that I only go downtown to work in my company’s office once or twice a week—or sometimes not at all. I’ve worked from home for the better portion of the last ten years. (I can’t really imagine working any other way!) Though I sometimes bluster about going into the office, it is nice to see actual faces of people I work with (and not just via a Skype video call). I rarely ever step into the lobby on the first floor, but I did last week as I had some cookies deliv

Friendships can begin in the unlikeliest of places, perhaps as a reminder that good things can happen even in the darkest of circumstances. I've written before about meeting author  Claire Bidwell Smith  before the success of her first book, a memoir of grief about losing both her parents before she was twenty-five. She was  Ken 's and my grief counselor while he was home for hospice for what turned out to be the last eight weeks of his life. Our friendship was forged during