A lost boat, a daughter’s quest. In installments.
Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 26th, 2008
The Boat, July 1986, shortly before it was sold.
Some events morph into myth in the history of families. Truths are sometimes cast off, a little bit at a time. I say this because as I wrestle these stale memories into a (quasi) coherent narrative, I keep coming across all of these ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Brain tumors are a bitch. They take dreams, and dignity, and fathers. In my more selfish moments, the losses I mourn most fervently are the experiences I would have had if the boat were completed, if our little family had climbed into that boat and lived lives of sailors and scuba divers, ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
The Boat, December 1980.
It is surprising, even to me, that the following story is true. Or at least it's going to start that way. I'm still hoping for a miracle ending, but even if D- gets out of jail soon, I doubt he could do anything else to help ...
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