My dad died this week
My dad Norman passed away this week at age 89. I've started putting together a remembrance site for him, and it's hard not to consider how crazy of a life he lived. I'll write more about this in the coming weeks. Some of the highlights: Norman was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1935, just in time for WWII. Their house was firebombed by the Germans during the Belfast Blitz, though they had already retreated to the country when it happened. Norman rebelled against the fundamentalist religious upbringing he had, and was eventually shipped out of the country to America...