Ashes to Ashley
Unexpected Encounter at a funeral“Mike died,” his wife, Shelly Carter, informed me over the phone. “Oh no! Shelly! I’m so sorry, hon.” It wasn’t a surprise, his cancer had become very aggressive in the last year. Still, it was difficult news for my friend. Shelly and I were work friends going back almost thirty years. She was "Auntie Shell" to my kids. She knew things about me no one else in the world ever did. Ten years my senior, I still had the hots f...