Dad
“To have and to hold…” One day early in their marriage, mother was talking on the phone with one of her many girlfriends. The instrument she used was an old-school Bell desktop, with 12 gray plastic buttons jutting out of a beige casing, complete with a receiver so hefty and
Mom
This morning, before heading out to the airport, I woke my wife up with a kiss and told Jenn that I loved her. Soon enough, she was giggling about something I said while sleeping. Bookended by sleepy muttering and snores, I said something like this: …they always make you wear
Dad
Last night, I got a phone call I had been dreading for quite some time. My father called to tell me that my mother was in the hospital. Earlier in the day, she was visiting her primary care physician to get (of all things) a referral to the ophthalmologist. During