Originally posted on 08/04/2018:

Its amazing to me how a voice in a podcast and a column host can have such a profound effect on my life. Not having Dave around to read, hear, and simply look forward to has left an ache that hurts always every day. Like most of you, I never met Dave but felt this incredible respect and admiration for all those virtues that he's been rightfully credited with in his passing. If there was ever a guy who deserved to keep living it was him, still wears on me after all these months and prob always will