My Granddaughter Asked Me to Stop Sending Her Father Money and to Follow Him

a brass urn a week after the funeral, cold and heavy in my hands, and it sat on the mantle in the living room like an altar to grief.

My wife Gloria lasted six months after that.

The doctor called it cardiac arrest. I knew what it was. You can watch a person die of a broken heart, and it doesn’t look the way movies suggest. It doesn’t come with a final continue reading …