We finally found the cemetery by the country church, several miles outside Rhome, Texas. We almost walked past the gravestone. It was a simple, thin maker, no more than a couple of feet wide and no higher than my knees. Bending down, I ran my fingers over the letters, squinting to read the birth date …
When the waiter first told us someone had picked up our check, I didn’t understand him. “You mean our check is at the counter?” “No sir, someone paid for it,” he repeated. “Someone paid for it,” Lori echoed his words to me, slowly enunciating each syllable like she was talking to someone who had difficulty …
How could someone with the assets of Prince NOT have a will? A judge has determined that Prince did not have a will and that his estate, estimated to be in the neighborhood of $350 million, will be distributed among his heirs, which would be in his case, his brothers and sisters. And it’s not …
Maybe it was the way she was ever so slightly dragging her left leg. Perhaps it was the confused look in her eyes, like she had just walked into a room filled with strangers. It could have been the way she doubled her shopping cart as a walker as she exited the grocery store, ambling …
“Let’s see what’s going on here,” the doctor said as she looked at my charts. I felt miserable but didn’t want to admit it, as if refusing to acknowledge sickness would somehow make it go away. It didn’t. My wife had repeatedly urged me to “just do it; go to the doctor,” but I had …