Glenn

 I’ve known Dennis for about 25 years.  We met at Atmel and often wandered to the Blue Star – usually AFTER work.  Nancy, Dennis and I were all going through some level of relationship disruption and found in each other kindred spirits. Nancy dubbed us the Popsicle Sticks which morphed into the p-sticks.  The name stuck in that like a bundle of sticks, versus just one, we supported each other, together - sort of like the Diamond Dogs in Ted Lasso.  Not sure we howled, but on occasion a growl or two was heard...

We ended up smoking cigarillos on the Cliff House veranda and drinking fine wine while floating in the pool at the Biltmore in Arizona.  Many good times were had. Through the good times, and probably more so through the hard times, we forged a deep friendship.

We’ve come as close as anyone in solving mankind’s perennial challenges.  How best to skate ski in Crested Butte, how best to yell at the Broncos when they are stinking, and other earth-shaking matters.

But seriously, there is no man I would turn to for counsel on how best to be a father, or a lover... er, I mean about matters of the heart.  I’ll always remember and frequently dust off his wisdom, that "a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways".  I think he stole that from the bible.... Is it ok to steal from the bible???

Anyway, it was a pivotal moment for me, at the Blue Star of course, when he made the powerfully simple point that when we split our energies or intention, try to hang onto the fence if you will, that we subvert both options.  Best to walk one path in life at a time.  This was on apt display a few years later when Dennis and I were sitting outside Rico’s wine bar when up walked Trudy.

It was like lightning struck.  Pretty sure I hear the thunder-crack!! Following his own advice, Dennis went all-in with Trudy and within a year’ish they were hitched, and a better pardner I could not imagine for my dear friend.  In fact, Trudy has become a match-stick – a mere splinter away from a full-fledged p-stick!

Since then, the years have flown by it seems. And now, Dennis is the point-of-the-spear as the p-sticks head in our seventies.  We have sung together, cried together and laughed together and I look forward to teasing him, when he starts wearing a diaper. 

But seriously folks, I’ll happily help him change his, if he’ll return the favor.

But really, seriously, to my brother from another mother, I love you and look forward to all the joy these next years will bring.

Glenn