Category Archives: Memoir

All Saints in an election year

Not much of a story, but it’s true. I failed to get the whole story. I wish I had asked more questions, but I didn’t want to be any more intrusive than I already had been. Friday evening around 7, when I was getting home from work, a light-colored minivan that preceded me up GlengarryContinue reading “All Saints in an election year”

Remembering Tim Keller

Here’s a gift link to the story the Washington Post just put up about the death of Tim Keller: https://wapo.st/41Rt8wg. As a subscriber, I can create gift links that allow nonsubscribers to read. So there you go. But I want to say a couple of things too. The article says: “Dr. Keller was 24 whenContinue reading “Remembering Tim Keller”

Pay your democracy tax: support newspapers

I delivered the Richmond Times-Dispatch to two routes in my hometown by bicycle six days a week throughout my middle school and high school years. After I added the second route my father insisted on driving me around the route in the ’63 Fairlane on Sundays and when the weather was horrible. I was upContinue reading “Pay your democracy tax: support newspapers”