For the first two or three holiday seasons, (we were married in 1958) we had a new baby in tow. For Thanksgiving 1959, we had welcomed son Patrick, and in 1960 on Halloween, our daughter was born. We ...
When my big brother Joe died two years ago at age sixty-three, alone on his bedroom floor in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, he had more than sixty tattoos on his body but no teeth. Years of anxious clenching ...