Ed Duffy. Unforgettable.

We all lose people we love, people who are integral to us. We cannot escape loss. I will never know what it must feel like to lose a child but I know the sorrow of a mother or father’s death. Today, my father-in-law, Edward Duffy, died. His wife, Jean, and his seven children are in that unenviable position today of realizing they will never see … Continue reading Ed Duffy. Unforgettable.

I am born

To borrow from Charles Dickens: WhetherI shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will beheld by anyone else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning ofmy life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) onthe thirteenth day of October. It was remarked that soon after my mother … Continue reading I am born