Her name was Arline. She was my father’s mother. She died in 1949 when my father was 16. We knew very little about her growing up. In the early 1980’s, after my grandfather died, a letter arrived at the house from my father’s aunt Marie who was six years younger than her sister. My parents were […]
Regardless of where you stand on the proposed health care legislation (if you can figure it out!), the drama around President Obama’s speech tonight was stirring. A young president with an ambitious agenda, standing before a divided Congress, on national television, laying out the purpose and logic of his proposal. The stakes were high, the […]