I had the honor of writing both my dad’s obituary and his eulogy after he suffered a fatal heart attack while driving 65 miles an hour up Highway 75 during Super Bowl weekend 30 years ago. He has been gone now two years longer than I was alive in 1993. Those numbers and others like [...]
In the days leading up to her 84th birthday, my mom completed three crosswords each morning, raced us to the Wordle, swam every afternoon, negotiated an auto repair, wrote a poem, played tennis with her feisty friends, took her necessary daily walk and toasted the sunset each evening with a nice glass of oaky chardonnay. [...]
I got a little pit in my stomach when I ran to the store for children’s pain medication this week. One of our little fellows had spiked a fever of 103.5 in the middle of the night and I used the last of our children’s pain medication to treat it. The next day I ran [...]
For Christmas this year, my daughter Molly gave me three quarts of homemade ice cream. I shared, of course, teeny, tiny little dishes for my Christmas Eve guests. "What flavor would you like?" I asked each one, and then scooped that precious ice cream with a little teaspoon and served it in the smallest glass [...]
He asked for it so often, it became a theme. "Can I have some cotton candy?" "I'm sorry, no." "Why not?" "Because we don't have any cotton candy and, even if we did, it's just a big puffball of sugar that never tastes as good as you think it will." "But can I have some?" [...]
