Cintra R.

It seems as if this journal is becoming mostly a listing of those we've said goodbye to. On Friday I learned of the death of my former colleague, Cintra R. We met back in the extremely faraway days when the major accounting firms were called the Big Eight (as opposed to the Big Four, or by now probably Big Two). She was doing technical writing for one of the firms, and I was editing and revamping some of their publications. We hit it off right away, and over the next 40 or so years we remained more or less regularly in touch. She made numerous changes in her career, from corporate to academic to corporate to academic, changing cities frequently in order to accept a new job or appointment. Over the last few years we'd lost touch, but I thought of her frequently, and I always felt that we'd see each other again when the workload was lighter and the world less crazy. Sadly, that didn't happen. I don't know the cause of her death; I do know that she was a cancer survivor, that heart disease ran in her family, and that she was a smoker. So it could have been one or a combination of those factors that caused her to die far too soon. She will be missed.