A Good Place to Remember Leslie Marenchin*...

The vast majority of good times I shared with my friend Leslie were spent as part of a triumvirate of mirth. The third leg of the stool (heh...heh....I just typed stool, with all its scatological connotations...that one's for you, P.J.), the inestimable Freebird, has created a blog in Leslie's honor.

Friends, students, and others who wish to leave comments or read what others have written will find the blog at:

professormarenchin.blogspot.com

If you don't like the comment posting process, you may also send comments directly to Freebird at keithjon@hotmail.com and he will post them for you If you prefer to leave a comment here, I will send them on so Leslie's family will have a central site to visit.

Thanks again to all of you who have expressed your sympathies to me in words spoken and written. 

A memorial service is tentatively scheduled in the chapel on the University of Houston campus at 1 p.m. on Sunday, December 7.

*or, as Leslie might have said, "A Clean, Well Lighted Fart."

Be Careful Out There

I received word this morning that a friend from my graduate school days died over the weekend. I have many, many memories of Leslie, bookended by a spur-of-the-moment Who concert in early 80s Houston and a reunion of our cocktail-consuming-trio on an Oregon beach in 2003. 

The one constant in all these years? Laughter.