How Jim Herlihy's novel "Deceit and Dirty Money" Relates to My Son's Change of Jobs and Cities

 I miss my every other day workouts at the Stonestown YMCA--the people as well as the exercise!  I was lucky to have two good conversationalists --Jerry on my left, Jim on my right.  

One of the things Jim mentioned to me on one of those mornings before March 16, 2020 was a novel he'd written that was published in 2000.  Since the Y closed, Jim has started a podcast--The San Francisco Experiment---which I've listened to scores of times, and now I'm reading his book Deceit and Dirty Money.  It's a page-turner, and it's especially fun to be reading it now because one of the characters, Chris Callen, is changing jobs and moving from New York City back to San Francisco at the same time  my son is doing that!

 "He had a lot to do before leaving...First the run:  one last time through Central Park...."

My son lived a block from Central Park and went running there too--an important part of his life.

Strangely enough, Chris Callens hasn't given notice on his apartment, and he has a car he has to ship.  But when he gets to San Francisco, he says, "Slow down.  I want to remember this moment.  My return to San Francisco...I love this town and now I'm back."  

I used to visit my son in NYC in September, so I couldn't resist writing a reference to this in the book over the sentences describing May as "one of the few times of the year New York's climate is pleasant."