Searching for the 'Widowhood Effect' on Father's Day My sister and I took our positions in the funeral home's family room and greeted hundreds of mourners who had come to pay their respects. Everything seemed as it had four months earlier at our mother's funeral. The ubiquitous tissue boxes. My navy pinstriped suit. The ripped black ribbon, a Jewish tradition, affixed to my lapel.
June 14, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
Father’s Day, and the voice A few weeks ago I was in the family room listening to music, when a friend turned to study a picture on the wall. It shows a smiling young man in his Navy uniform, white cap tilted back just so, the three stripes of a petty officer first class showing conspicuously, wire-rimmed glasses with brown eyes underneath. “Is that you?” he asked, sounding fairly certain he had got the identification right.
June 14, 2013 - The Wenatchee World
Ronald McDonald House opens local family room Kalispell Regional Medical Center unveiled its Ronald McDonald family room Thursday night at the hospital.
June 12, 2013 - Daily Inter Lake