I recently received a condolence card from a dear old friend in New Jersey (my husband Chuck Strum and I moved from Ridgewood. N.J., to Weybridge five years ago). In the card my friend wrote “my biggest wish is that we all lived nearby on the same street, in the same town as the old days so we could simply be there for each other.” While my friend was imagining a place from the distant past (she and I never lived in New Jersey even in the same town), I realized that I live in such a place right now.Througho … (read more)
