At each point the heart breaks, it becomes at once more tough and more tender.

Few children consider their parents adventurers. Our moms and dads are ordinary folk. They are not people with lives and intents of their own. They don't arrive in our lives, but we in theirs: we don't have the luxury of seeing them coming. They are, if we're lucky, benevolent personages. Mine were; a comfortable... Continue Reading →

September 14, 2020 2

“This is the story of how we begin to remember…”

Cousin Michael Lamb, Kimmie Gail & Shirley AyersEaster / Middletown, OHIO The stateside world I knew was bounded by the gentle hills of the Ohio River Valley. My grandmother lived just across the river from Cincinnati in northern Kentucky. My mother and father and I would fly into this cool and pleasant place every... Continue Reading →

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