A funny thing happens when people die. The world goes on, spinning in its predictable way, bosses to answer to and dentist appointments to keep. Those who survive are left with innumerable memories, the ones of him trying his best to teach you whiffle ball, the ones of a family dinner that left you [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Hallelujah
04.12.09 –
Holiday times have changed round these parts, and Easter is no different. Years ago, there was almost forced attendance at sunrise services on cold New Jersey mornings. I sang in the church choir, as did my sister, half awake and hardly likely to remember the words to five or six standard hyms. Pre-dawn fellowship was [...]
New
04.10.09 –
I’ve been making some different choices lately. Some would say these choices are questionable, and that in fact there is no question. They’d say there’s a good and there’s a bad, like night and day and Riesling and Syrah, but it turns out life presents itself in shades of grey more than I thought a [...]