We celebrated his birthday in the house my father built, which sounds a lot more Biblical than it should, given the proven humanity of all involved. Still, we honored him the best we we knew with hard work, a little American ingenuity, a big ole fire and corn popped in bacon fat. That last delicacy [...]
There's no easy way to say goodbye to a friend. No matter how beautiful the memories, or how long the friendship, whether the end comes swiftly or painfully slow, it is always difficult to let go. Yesterday, we paid our respects to our friend Doug. A member of General Patton's army, he was a decorated [...]
My dad died dramatically Super Bowl weekend exactly 20 years ago. To mark the occasion, I am posting the eulogy I wrote. It's longer than I remembered. I wrote it on a few scraps of borrowed yellow legal paper sitting outside the door of my hotel room in Franklin, Kentucky at 2 a.m. the morning [...]