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- The Gift of Time: Final Days with my Dad
As I faced the impending death of my beloved father, Alex Schoenbrun, I wondered how many more times I would feel satisfied saying and hearing “I love you” so that it would last me the rest of my life. For decades ...
- A Passing
On Friday morning, February 23, 2007, my father, Bob David Sr., took his last breath. He was 81. I can hardly convey my gratitude for the way events played out over the last trying months, days, and hours of his life, and for all t ...
- There But For The Grace Of Many Things…
“I realized while I was away I married you just because I thought you’d make a good officer’s wife. I never loved you. I’m leaving.” He said those words the night he returned from Vietnam. When he had first ...
- Toby: The Natural Therapy Pet
Toby is one of God’s little creatures—a happy, vibrant, and friendly puppy. Loyal and affectionate, Toby has helped me recover from my strokes by relieving the tremendous stress with which I, a worka ...
- Invisible Candle
I have two mothers in Japan. One is my real mother. The other is a seventy-four-year-old, wealthy widow who loves to drink whisky and smoke. I don’t remember exactly when I met her, but she and I have kept in touch over the ...
- 28 Days
The atmosphere at CAB Health & Recovery Services and at other holding facilities for people facing alcoholism and addiction that I have spent time in is full of fear. A “waiting for death” syndrome engulfs the peopl ...
- The Horseman
When I arrived at the cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Gene Mason was lying in his bed, conscious but sedated. He was suffering from complications after a six-way coronary bypass surgery—wh ...
- Robert Kennedy & Barack Obama
1968 was a seminal year in my life and in the lives of many. It was the year I tried hardest to change the political priorities of my country. With my wife’s support, I joined the campaign of Robert F. Kennedy for Preside ...
- The Other Woman
When I met and fell in love with my charming, fascinating, creative ex-husband, I never saw the addict. We came together as poet and painter, with great passion for our respective gifts and for each other. It would be si ...
- Mama You Made Beautiful Quilts
Mama you made beautiful quilts To wrap us in, And little shoes for my little feet. You brought okra from a seed In our family country garden, Turning over the earth in the summer, topless. Mama you made delici ...
