Lucky That Way: Rediscovering My Father's World

Author’s Note

Author’s Note The events and details in this story are as accurate and true as possible—as best I and my siblings could remember them. Some names of people and places have been changed for the sake of privacy. Lucky That Way “Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change. Into something rich and strange.” —William Shakespeare, The Tempest “Never before in history has it been so hard to fulfill our final earthly task: dying.” —Craig Bowron, internist at a Minnesota hospital, Washington Post, January 11, 2009 ...