Lou wasn’t coming back to Utah until the first full week of January, which meant we would each be ringing in the New Year on our own.  Henry hosted an annual New Year’s Eve party, complete with a fireworks display, and lots and lots of family and friends from his and Jackie’s ward. So my […]

The winter hippies and the regular guests had more-or-less mixed into one mass of partygoers, and before long, I completely lost track of Sam.  I was helping Jackie keep up with the cups and glasses when I came around the corner to enter the dinning room. That’s when I saw Sam mauling Melanie’s face off […]

The next time I was making another clean-up loop at Jackie’s New Year’s Eve party, Sam and Melanie were seated on the staircase near the front door.  They were just talking this time, so when I sped by, Sam called for me to join them. So I did. I remember that I had to climb […]