My friend Mel is just goofy.  And funny.  And sometimes loud.  She can make me laugh faster and for longer than anyone else I know.  Mel = instantaneous fun for me. I first got to know Mel when she was hanging around her older sister Heidi, who was a music…

It all started with a goofy Facebook post and then a conversation about how it would be really great to see each other again, since we haven’t been together for years and years, and somehow, one thing led to another and it actually, amazingly, worked out for us all to…