My mother told me the news in that “I haven’t had a chance to tell him,” sort of way as we rode with my grandfather to our Sunday night dinner. I knew who my great uncle was more than I knew him. We were family though we weren’t that close. We weren’t distant – he [...]
I didn’t know how bad my bad day was until my supervisor told me the news: “Did you hear?” “Hear what?” “Your boy, LeRoi Moore, died today.” It was August 19th, 2008. I was groaning over an ex-girlfriend’s birthday and over the thoughts that she was in the city (Chicago). Petty, figuring I haven’t seen [...]