Dear Memorial Day Readers, My father was born May 30, 1938 in Manila, where his father was sent by the IRS to try to get Gen. Douglas MacArthur to pay his taxes. Oddly or ironically or serendipitously (will someone tell me the right word?), Beau was sent to the Philippines to be a surgeon during…
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Mother’s Day Memories of a Lost & Found Father
Dear Children of Mothers and/or Fathers (i.e., all of you), My mother Barbara is here from Florida and has been telling me long-ago stories of Beau. This picture is of them at the Taj Mahal in 1965–shortly after I was born. And no, I’m not hidden in a car seat inside the Taj, I’m back…
Stories, not Statistics
Dear Readers, Reluctantly, I retrieved the Sunday New York Times from the front porch this morning. Since Beau died I haven’t much felt like watching television, reading books or the newspapers. I mostly just like to sit in silence and look out my front window—a bit like an Alzheimer’s disease patient myself. I let my…
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