Fifty years ago this month, my girlfriend took me out to a cocktail bar for my first legal professionally-served cocktail. As memory serves, we went to the Quarterdeck on south Willamette in Eugene for this momentous occasion.
A lot of water has passed under the old Autzen Stadium footbridge since that evening. Pam's life and mine have taken very different courses - each charting our own lives, loves and careers in cities hundreds or thousands of miles apart. The affection we knew then has evolved along the way, but remains as consistent as any I have known in my life.
Pam's Christmas vacation she had planned with her daughter and granddaughter in the Bavarian-themed village of Leavenworth was postponed by flooding, and is now their mid-winter Bavarian-themed vacation.
So last week we celebrated the anniversary of this milestone a bit early at The Cove in Vancouver.
There is never a bad time to recognize and enjoy a lifetime of dear friendship.
