Category Archives: Friendship

A Friend Turned 90 This Week

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

A friend of mine turned 90 this week, just as I will likely turn 68 at mid-month.  There is nothing inexorable about turning 90, or even 68, even if the continual rotation of the clock’s hands remind us that the passage of time is.  … Continue reading →

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Companies of Friends

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

When I die, let them judge me by my company of friends Let them know me as the footprints that I left upon the sand Let them laugh for all the laughter Let them cry for laughter’s end But when … Continue reading →

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A Thank You To My Many Friends

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

Humptulips County has a diverse population, much more so, in fact, than when I first moved back after graduation from law school. Over the years, the area has become increasingly diversified and far more tolerant of that diversity. It is … Continue reading →

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A Formative Friendship Remembered

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

I am in the air on my way to Ann Arbor, Michigan to attend a football game with my oldest son. Don was born in Ann Arbor a few days following my graduation from law school. Shortly after his birth, … Continue reading →

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Nothing in Particular and Everything Good: The Art of Conversation

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.” Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist “After the exercises which the health of the body requires, and which have themselves a natural tendency to actuate and invigorate the mind, the … Continue reading →

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Repartee, Badinage, Persiflage, Raillery and Guff

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

In the 1920s, Dorothy Parker was establishing a reputation as a witty woman with a sharp tongue (the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell called her, “My pretty, pretty cobra”). At the same time, Clare Booth Luce was becoming a respected journalist … Continue reading →

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Laughter is the Best Memory

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

Now there was great Uncle Julius And Aunt Annie Mueller And Mary and Granddaddy Paul And there was Hanna and Ella And Alvin and Alec He owned his own funeral hall And there are more I remember And more I … Continue reading →

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Conversations With Bob

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Gavin Stevens

My dear friend, partner and mentor, Bob Weiss, turns 89 tomorrow, an age at which most folks are content to rest and contemplate their past. However, whatever activities Bob may engage in tomorrow, looking backward will not likely be chief … Continue reading →

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