Let's see -- one good friend from high school (met freshman year, 1962). Occasional phone calls, sporadic letters, cards, email and when I'm in Milwaukee we get together for a road trip to someplace interesting -- an iris farm, House on the Rock, or just shopping in a town with an interesting restaurant and lots of cheese. That looks like we've known each other for 46 years!

Got another good friend -- constant emails and phone calls, but we're no longer living close enough to see each other that often -- that I met when he came into the carpet mill store I was managing (c. 1974) and wanted to buy a gazillion square yards of "Herald American blue" -- and I knew what color that was.

And a former employer now a good friend whom I originally met (and went to work for) around 1976.

Linn