Every Good Morning

For audio version click here My father told me two stories where he had to meet violent antagonists. One deserves its own Post but the other bears his own brand of irony. A year or two into his career as a police officer, my father and another Trooper were chasing three men in a stolen car. Both cars twisted back and forth at high speed over the back roads of Lebanon County during an afternoon.  […]

For audio version click here Stories bring to light individual histories; they tell the world that we were once awash in life, and thus they not only yoke us to others but also give us a fraction of earthly life after death. A story well told gives breath and movement to the dead. They walk among us, upright and once again in love with their days. The once lost stories of my father that I […]

For audio version click here He looks directly into the camera, unsmiling, an unusual expression for a groomsman to wear. Why not a smile? He is so young. Sometimes his youth causes me to hold my breath. His gaze now carries across almost 80 years. All of his life awaits him. I still miss him. One of the reasons for my search for my fathers’ living presence in the past comes down to a question:  […]