While Jennifer and I were in Phoenix this week, we had dinner one night with several of Jennifer’s old high school lunch buddies from Mesa High School from back in the day. It was a fun evening to hear them all reminisce. But during the evening I was also reminded of how joy and sorrow are integrally related. And that reminder let to my writing a column for today’s Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette where I reflect on how joy and sorrow so often live side by side.