For a long time I have thought about writing down some of the events in connection with my father’s illness. And for a long time I have delayed starting. A number of considerations stalled me, chiefly the desire to keep his identity, as well as my family member’s identities, confidential. It is not at all…
Monthly Archives: December 2009
A lonely path through a darkening land
This blog is a chronicle of my father’s path through that dark land of gradual loss and dimming light. But there is much more to this story than sadness, though there is plenty of that. It is mostly a story of the profound depth of human feeling and the unbreakable bonds formed when facing shared…