“Dad!” The last time I played cards with Parker started out with Sandy yelling and banging on my front door. She never could wait, never had any patience. She didn’t understand that it wasn’t as easy to get up out …
Buffy walks among the mourners, oblivious to the Brooks Brothers men, women in patent leather Ferragamo flats determinedly correct yet gossiping about the funeral, second-guessing about The Will. They had grown old together. Buffy, always an enigma, still energetic, plain, …
Late in May, and a large cherry tree was shedding its blossom. Brilliant white in the early evening sunshine, it lay thickly over his bossy mother’s grave. White, Brian thought, the colour of a bride’s gown.
The ‘hole’, as he …
Man gets 50 to life;
woman just calls it marriage.
David A. Grenardo is a professor of law at the St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. He was a four-year letterman in football at …