Thursday, August 18, 2016
I think of John quite often and miss him a great deal. I traveled quite a bit with him in the 2008-2011 time frame and got to know him pretty well - we had some great times together. Even with a GPS and with John navigating and me driving we always seemed to manage to miss our turns and end up in some whacky place that would cause us both to just shake our heads and laugh. I remember one time when we finished our presentation at a NIJ meeting and I told John that I didn't want to go back into the meeting. He asked me what I wanted to do instead and I told him that I wanted to go swimming (we were staying at a conference center in Florida in late July that had a mammoth lazy river). So, about a half hour later, John and I were floating down the lazy river and we found a nice pool off to the side where we stopped and chatted. While we were there chatting, I swear everyone who was be at the meeting floated by us and waved and called out our names (we were the sponsors of the meeting). It seems that I wasn't the only one who preferred a dip in the pool to staying in that meeting.
Like I said, I think of John often and miss him a great deal.
I'm so sorry that he is no longer with us.
