Memory submitted by Beau

When did you meet Mickey?
1975

Where did you meet him?
Morningside Egg Hunts

Memory of Mickey
I got to grow up around Mickey; in the seventies, he was one of the oddball grownups at the Lipscombs parties. In the eighties, he was one of the oddball grownups at the Flint Hill egg hunts, where I also grew up, and raised my own kids. I got to watch Mickey become one of the brilliant sages of the Pig Roasts, the Egg Hunts, and whatever else went on that drew together the tribes of Morningside, Ansley Park and Flint Hill.

Favorite memories vary from the weekend that he trashed his brand new jeep, down at Andy’s farm, giving everybody rides through the woods until he broke an axel or two, on up to the various times he helped show me how to slow down and just be there with my kids.

Oh, and he also, through one of his first websites, taught me about the zen of javascript, which was a good thing since I’d taken a job doing lots of that.

He was one of those, like Andy and Al, who were supposed to always be there; they were just fixtures in my life that I regret now too often taking for granted.