This is a bit of a long walk, but stick with me. I promise I have a point to make about teaching. My wife and I just got home from a funeral for a friend of ours. A wonderful woman who lives - I use the present tense because her spirit is still very much …
Tag: death
Sally’s Gone …
It’s taken me a few weeks to get my head together enough to write this, and part of me wants to put it off a while longer. It needs to be done, though, if for no other reason than to stop some of these thoughts from rattling around in my noggin. Two years ago today, …
Golden
June 26, 2019Early morningThe light of a newly risen sun trickles over the eastern ridge behind my parents’ trailer and in through the living room window. It slowly covers the brown carpet with a thin, golden blanket. My father stands vigil over my grandfather, a man quite literally on his death bed. They are untouched …