Bad news for fans of crime television starring senior citizens. Andy Griffith has died! Yes, I know it’s been a few days but it’s taken me some time to process. The man was 86, so he had a nice, long life.

I wish I had a red-headed daughter named Liz to be a sibling to Opie!

Even though Griffith was a Carolina Tarheel, I still admired his tenacity in putting the bad guys behind bars on Matlock (though, truthfully, I never watched an episode). Let’s pray that Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke are not next to go. Diagnosis: Live Forever, I wrote!