Mardi Browning
So sorry to read this instead of finding the current contact info I was looking for to reach my friend Mike for a good catch-up session. We were colleagues with Ottaway Newspapers and became close friends over the years. Mike was the epitome of a true gentleman, kind and soft-spoken, with a zany streak and a wicked sense of humor. He'd shoot me an eyebrow during a business meeting and I'd lose it. A California Girl on the east coast, he schlepped with me through antique shops and cranberry bogs on Cape Cod, up and down Bourbon Street in N'awlins. He was proud papa of Jill and Mike, we talked kids and jobs and how to sell a subscription, balance work and family. Watched the carp bumping insanely against a bridge in a park in PA, Amish farmers in their wagons, loaded my suitcase with REAL cheese from a country barn. Such a good man. I'm so sorry we didn't get that catch-up, but we'll meet again some sunny day...