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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

While my celebrating won't include a parade, I will do my best to honor my family heritage with a good meal, a drink and likely a song or two.

Portraits of My Father as a Young Man

These last few days I have been thinking about my father as February 25 was his birthday.

Uncle Florry's Will

This week, trying to winnow down a file box overstuffed with my father's papers, I rediscovered a curious, heartwarming copy of Uncle Florry's will.

Uncle Eddy and the Gift of Family

Like Santa he would always come at Christmas.

My Father and His Father's Grave

In the last year of my father's life he obsessed about his father's grave. His life had been upended in nearly every way, yet regularly he would call the office at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Butte, Montana to assure that his father's grave was being cared for.