4. Owed to Dad
This is a special Father’s Day post. The regular Apple Hill Cottage posts will resume next week. Dad died in March. He was 90 and until he was about 88, he was healthy, happy, and still playing golf....
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My friend Nancy died last night after a long fight with cancer. This is for you, Nance. A blue jay came to sit on my window sill as my friend was dying. I thought Do birds take our spirits to heaven?...
View ArticleEminent Domain: 11, Alex, Burton, Conrad
11 Alex, Burton, Conrad Wednesday, February 10, 1988 The hospital parking lot was full — the spaces that weren’t filled with cars were filled with heaping hills of snow. Alex drove out of the main...
View ArticleEminent Domain: 18, Conrad DeBolt’s Obituary
The Friday posts are chapters from my fiction project, Eminent Domain. They’re long, and they’re not for everyone, but if you read, I’d be glad for your comments, critical or otherwise. 18 Conrad...
View ArticleMeanderings on Comfort…
We used to jokingly call him King Henry The First. He died on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a cat’s life, well lived. I never felt right feeding birds while he was around; scattered bird seed was...
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