One Year on the Road

Early this summer, my dad was diagnosed with a severely malfunctioning heart valve, and valve replacement surgery was recommended. Open heart surgery at Dad’s age (87) is considered very risky. But there’s a new kind of valve replacement surgery that…

My mother grew up in St. Louis and moved back there with my younger brother and sister after my parents divorced. For years they lived in a duplex rental in Webster Groves that we all squeezed into at holidays. Later,…