I am so bummed tonight. My friend, Mike Calvert, died of a heart attack earlier this week. Mike was just a spectacular individual. I met him when I became a Kansas City Barbecue Society judge. I didn’t know anyone at the contests, and Mike just came up to me with this big, broad smile on his face and gave me a hug. He didn’t even know me. Gave me a hug.
I judged a lot of contests with Mike. He lived nearby on Old Hickory Lake. He offered more than once to take my husband and I on a cruise around the lake and we never took him up on it. Too bad for us.
Mike is no doubt having a libation and trading stories with other BBQ guys who have gone before (sadly, there are more than I want to think about) up in the Pitmaster’s domain. We here on earth are left a little sadder, a little emptier, a little lonelier without Mike to stride up, break into a grin and give us a big hug.
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