January 11, 1921 – November 10, 2013
Pops: son, brother, friend, student, naval officer, professor, uncle, husband, father, grandfather. And now, blithe spirit. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return
D is for Dad
Pops, posing on the Central Freeway, San Francisco, CA. Honestly, here’s what I remember. I remember us driving along the freeway, heading into San Francisco, around about the point where Interstate 80, the Bayshore Freeway, branches off due west and into central San Francisco. I remember us thinking somehow that this
Here, now
Left of his bed, our hands, right of his bed, Castro Valley, CA. Tomorrow will be the twenty-year anniversary of my mother’s death. Breast cancer metastasis. Hers was the second in a three-part string of family cancer deaths, the oldest to go (my dad’s younger sister died not very many