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Robert E. “Bob” Lee
Nine years after writing my final column in The Daily Oklahoman, folks still ask, “Aren’t you writing a book?” No, I tell them, a fiction-writing friend told me that in 18 years of columns, I wrote the equivalent of 14 novels — 550 words at a time. That’s enough, thank you.
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Retirement has taught me: (1) You are forced to become a quasi-professional medical expert. and (2) there CAN be happiness after grief.
Retired Capitol reporter Paul English and I were talking just last week and concluded that Congress should stop tinkering with Medicare. They’ve already made it far too dad gum complicated to understand.
This doctor or that one, procedure or surgery, brand name or generic; it’s mind-boggling.
June, my wife of 54 years, died in 2006 after living with heart problems for 41 years.
I always thought counseling was only for actors in a Bob Newhart sitcom. But grief counseling got me out of a blue funk.
Eventually, I called a widowed friend for a date. To impress her, I took her to an upscale Italian restaurant. It worked; she was impressed.
But she discovered the real Bob Lee on our second date … when I took her to a Hideaway Pizza.
Our friendship grew and last April 20, I exchanged vows with Leora “Lee” Holland, making us life partners.
Retirement has its highs and lows. Right now I’m on a Rocky Mountain high … except when I’m trying to understand the dad gum Medicare.
— Bob Lee
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