i look around me at a desk smothered with remnants of my last writing project . . . floor and cabinet tops littered with souvenirs of conferences, book signings and vacations now past . . . generations of dust bunnies besieging dead ...
The others were more recent, school portraits of Ed's fifteen-year-old son , Matt, through the years in Syracuse University shirts, family vacations, Ed's parents in their later years, and dozens more of Ed's wife, Mary Ellen. ...