Category Archives: war

My Father’s Birthday, Death Day, and a Possibility

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Today is my father’s birthday. He would have been ninety years old. He died three years ago at the age of eighty-seven. He died consciously, albeit full of oxycodone. He died with his eyes open, searching … Continue reading

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Friday the Thirteenth

My cousin Dave, coming home for the last time: November 2009   Last November thirteenth fell on a Friday— Friday the Thirteenth. I had never felt superstitious about that day or about anything else, and I still don’t. Friday the … Continue reading

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