About the work

A closer look.

Here's the opening of one: "My father once drove ninety minutes to return a library book he'd found under the car seat. That's all he was. He did not leave things lying around. He taught me to say thank you to the bus driver and to always carry a pen. Between those two I've managed most of my life. The last ordinary day was a Tuesday. He asked about the rain. I said it was coming. He said good." That's what I'm after: the small true thing, not a summary of a life. Tell me about them. The one small thing you keep remembering. How they laughed. The last ordinary day. I write it by hand, in plain words that sound like you, and you have it before the service. One revision included. If your date is too close for me to do it right, I tell you no.