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Balderdash and Poppycock
A Timeless Friend Who Impacted My Life… and the World
Today I’ve been thinking about a dear friend who is no longer with us. His name is Geoff Hoff and he and I came online around the same time. We became the best of friends, wrote two books together, and had many adventures until his untimely death from a heart attack in 2015. I’m taking care of his cat, Maggie and she is my daily reminder of this special man. Something I was reading had the word “balderdash” in it. That word and “poppycock” were two of Geoff’s favorites.
In fact, Geoff published a bestselling book titled Poppycock!: A Curmudgeon’s Look at the Myths That Keep Writers from Writing. He was a writer, a wordsmith, and a sweet soul who will never be forgotten. Thank you for indulging me here, as talking and writing about him allows me to smile at the memories that come up.
But we were much more than business partners. Geoff and I had become close friends, confidants, mastermind partners, and so much more. It’s difficult for me to imagine what life will be like now that he is no longer at the other end of the phone line. He was the kindest, most giving person I ever met, putting his own life on hold to help others in need. And he never said no when asked a favor by someone he knew, even if they had just met.
