“Friends, Good Friends and Such Good Friends” is the title of an essay by Judith Viorst that, when I was an editor of writing textbooks, was in far too many anthologies that used an outdated form of writing instruction. (rhetorical modes)
It’s also a way to describe my old publishing friends whom I don’t work with anymore.
Last night, many of us got together for the second time in a week, and it was a lot of fun. The Missus came along and had a good time as well.
The amount of shared good will and camaraderie within that group always struck me as something remarkable from a group of work friends, and as I move away from publishing, it seems unlikely that I will be cracking jokes about Comic Books, Jhumpa Lahiri and Sarah Palin at a work parties again.
