“And you have to listen to the heart of your loved ones, whether it’s your child or your spouse or your parents. What love is to them, that’s what it is.” – Lisa Godbold on “This American Life”, Show #521 (03.28.14) I’m embarrassed to admit that until I heard Godbold speak those words this morning, […]
I heard an interview yesterday with a woman who moved halfway across the country last year to make arrangements for her aging father’s end of life. “He’s senile and his girlfriend is insane,” she said. His health is failing, too. When the time comes, and it won’t be long in coming, she and her two […]
I spent a pleasant evening and morning after in the town of Appalachia, Virginia this weekend visiting a pirate named Gary. He runs an international pirate consortium that operates ’round-the-clock hoisting opera broadcasts out of the digital sea. The pirate named Gary says he tallies upwards of 150 such broadcasts himself every month and uses […]
