Thank God my mother reads the obituaries.  It’s something I really need to get into the habit of doing.  It was in the paper a few weeks ago that we learned our neighbor had passed away.  We hadn’t seen him in more than a year; he had been in a nursing home after suffering a fall.  During a walk around the block this weekend I saw his sister sitting on his front steps.  I walked up to express my condolences.  She told me it was pneumonia that got him in the end. It was quick, she said. Continue reading “Remembering Tom & Sandy: high school sweethearts together again” →