“How did that happen?”
Hannah Gadsby, in Nanette (dir. Jon Olb and Madeleine Parry, 2018), recounting her mother’s explanation of what she regretted in raising her children.
Parking at Coney Island
Men of honor and men of play.
Dad words
I was the designated talker at the memorial service for my dad on Saturday. Here, more or less, is what I said.
James Leddy (1928–2015)
My dad’s last word, to my mom: “Thanks.”
From a file folder
My dad sent me this questionnaire probably not long after I moved to Boston.
Marshall Fine (1956–2014)
“He always seemed to me like a man who stepped into our world from the nineteenth century, a learned professor of some -ology or other. He was in truth a violist, violinist, pianist, conductor, and composer.”
A request for good vibrations
For Elaine’s brother.
Happy Anniversary
My parents, a great-looking couple, then and now.
Jim Leddy tells it like it is
My dad on life in rehab.
Things to do in Los Angeles
An incomplete list.
“The kids”
Another college graduate!
Maurice Mannion-Vanover (1990–2011)
A New York Times story on “the remarkably long and way-too-short life” of Maurice Mannion-Vanover.
Rocking the home
Playing music at a nursing home on Christmas
A riddle
An illuminated manuscript from the second grade
"More square"
"He was dressed sort of like you, but more square."
ΦΒΚ
Matching father-daughter Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporters
Happy Birthday, Dad
He just turned 80.