I was going through one of my old notebooks yesterday, copying down info into a proper and new one, when I ran across the name and number of a dear friend and mentor who passed away two years ago. I sat there and cried.

nah. nuttin' weird about how you are feeling. As we get older we will be dealing with loss a helluva lot more often than we used to. Some of us will get over it fast and the rest of us will always mourn - perhaps with less intensity as time goes on.