Let us give thanks

A year ago, Mark was onstage three nights a week at La Te Da, in Broadway Three-Ways (with Bobby Nesbitt and Randy Thompson). His partner, the other Mark, owned the joint, so it was a natural fit, given this Mark's talent.

Then they weren't partners, and then this Mark's act closed, and then that Mark died, and this Mark went underground for a while and when he emerged he didn't smile much at all.

We didn't see him for the longest time, and then he was behind the bar at Aqua, but still reserved. And then we were out at The Keys a few nights ago and who should be there but the man with that smile and those eyes. . . .

And that smile. Welcome home.