Pops: son, brother, friend, student, naval officer, professor, uncle, husband, father, grandfather. And now, blithe spirit.   The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return

Left of his bed, our hands, right of his bed, Castro Valley, CA. Tomorrow will be the twenty-year anniversary of my mother’s death. Breast cancer metastasis. Hers was the second in a three-part string of family cancer deaths, the oldest to go (my dad’s younger sister died not very many