I watched an interview (I think it was her only interview) with Valerie Harper, who has terminal brain cancer and given about three months to live. Tears poured from my eyes. I'm losing a teenaged friend.
She said two things in the interview that will stick with me:

"Don't attend the funeral, until the funeral."
"Everybody has an expiration date; most of us just don't know when."

Some of you know why I am so moved. Yeah, You -- You know who You are! ;o) <smooch>

Pictured are from left, Valerie Harper (Rhoda Morgenstern), Nancy Walker (Rhoda's mother, Ida Morgenstern), and Juie Kavner (Rhoda's sister, Brenda Morgenstern).

Some (many) of us lived for the trinity of Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, and Phyllis. Those were the days, my friend...