Editor's Kid

Uncle Wes’s Desk

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When I was a child, my dad had a huge roll-top desk in his newspaper office in Gallatin, Missouri. I would sit there after school and play, of course, “newspaperwoman.” Later, Dad remodeled and got new steel desks for the office, and the old roll-top was relegated to the “back shop.” But it was still […]

Editor's Kid

Remembering Mama

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My mother’s 100-year-old body has just given out on her, and as I write this she is resting peacefully in the nursing home where she lives. She’s not expected to last more than a few more days, perhaps weeks. The following are excerpts from the eulogy I’ll deliver at graveside, if my emotions allow. Grateful […]