It has been just about three months since my friend Judge Joni Tidwell Haldeman left this place for a much better one. Her passing left a whole in the world that simply can’t be filled. This week I decided to recall our conversations and went back through some of the 12 years of messages I shared with her. I was quickly reminded of the deep wisdom that she possessed, and the often blunt and unabbreviated opinions that she held that helped guide me as a journalist and human being. Some were hilarious, some dead serious, but all memorable. What follows is a very small sampling, and I will share more another time.
On this stifling Texas heat she once told me, “June in the South is enough to make anyone tired.”
Once when talking DeKalb football and the hiring of Coach Eddy May to lead the Bears she noted, “I think he has been at it long enough to know that it is a game… and these are young people, that being a positive role model means more than stats on paper.” She was correct about my friend Eddy, and it showed.
