It was Friday night. We had just walked in from a supper of hamburgers and Cokes with all the family at The Soda Fountain. A friend, Barbara, texted urgently that our mutual friend, Dinah, was being rushed to the hospital. Possibly a stroke. Dinah, a dark-haired beauty from my girlhood, was a teenager when I was in patent leather shoes and lace-trimmed socks.
Column: Hard, selfless prayers offered on a bleak, quiet night