"I don't know where to start," one small pupil assigned to my row reported, his eyes meeting mine as I stood behind him. I co...
Fines (and stars)
"I don't think they fine you," I noted when I blew past another toll plaza without stopping to pay. It was - I'll admit -...
Dad's Eulogy
I have a PhD. Dad would have wanted you to know that if you didn’t already. Then he would have taken his wallet out to show you pictures o...
Deathbed
Yesterday was remarkably peaceful. I could feel the prayers - love and support and comfort - whisper around me, like fingers against my for...
Levels of Difficulty
"This will," Friend told me, "be the easiest and hardest thing you've ever done." And - as she is so much of the ti...
Comfort
There's nothing more they can do for my dad. That's what I said when people asked - as I either wept when embraced by colleagues or...