What I posted on Facebook about Bob: RIP Bob Anders. He passed away during one of the weeks we'd discussed the possibility of his coming to visit me and the rest of his old Bay Area friends from his home in Nova Scotia. We worked together in the original Macintosh group, where he was my right-hand man, an excellent writer who needed little direction in order to turn out stellar work. He became a very dear friend, who, when I left the Mac group, wrote a page-long inscription in an extra hard copy of Inside Macintosh (so that I would be forced to take it with me, as I'd been hesitant to do). In that inscription, he said he'd learned a lot from me, but I had also learned a lot from him, about life. He was an ardent Buddhist and had much wisdom to share (though he was modest and unassuming about that). He also wrote, "Life is precious and very short." His was too short. Upon his passing (and having just gone through a near-death experience myself), I've been giving more thought than ever to the preciousness of life. Please hold your loved ones dear; let them know how much you love them before it's too late. I'm grateful that Bob and I reconnected, after a decades-long hiatus, in time for us to let each other know. His memory will be a blessing for me.