Thank you for putting words to my thought, dear Robert. You are one of my favorites, though I only know you through your published works and an admiring, respecting description of you wearing your common — well suited — bow tie mentioned in a movie*…

I’d like to begin with a confession: I am not an expert in love.* In fact I am not an expert on many things. I can’t sing. I can’t dance. I struggle with rhyming. But I am willing to try. To try my best. To…