Yes, we can still honor our aging parents
I wrote this piece in 2003 as a letter to the editor of the NJ Jewish News, at the death of my friends’ father, who was a charming man I’d really enjoyed knowing in his last twenty years. Something reminded me of him recently, so I thought I’d republish it here.
“Last week, I attended the funeral of the father of my close friends. He was 86 years old and died of...