The slow, quiet days are done and the noisy, cold and busy ones are beginning, JP Devine writes.

When his daughter calls from Hollywood to tell him Jack Riley is dead, J.P. Devine is back in that ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ rehearsal room, and the decades in between slip away, he writes.

A tale of two chairs brings back warm memories and the sudden realization of change, JP Devine writes.

The older we get, the more our idea of fun changes, JP Devine writes.

Jack is the fourth in a long lifetime of faithful best friends, JP Devine writes.

Things have come a long way from Mama’s couch in the sleep department, JP Devine writes.

Even when the squares are big enough to write in, they may not hold as much as the ones in our hearts, JP Devine writes.