I never planned to get old. It just happened. Not that I’m complaining. There is a saying that goes, “A healthy man has a thousand problems; a sick man has only one.” And thank goodness I’m pretty healthy. Until recently, my medical history was mostly unremarkable. And that’s not something I love to hear myself say….
In January of 1944, my dad was headed to the bus station to enlist in the Marine Corps. His father was taking him. He wanted to see the world. He spent most of his time on the USS Atlanta in the South Pacific. Thirty years later, he would be taking me to the bus station…
We received a phone call around 5:00 a.m. that Mom and Dad were missing. A tornado had completely flattened their trailer park community in Warrick County, just outside Evansville. On our drive over through southern Indiana, we received updates. The first update was that they had found Mom under the rubble of her mobile home….
