My father stood up at the lake house dinner and raised his glass in fr…

dress. Tom on a hospital bed with a stuffed dinosaur, my mother’s handwriting on the back of the frame: Our brave boy. There were photos of me too, technically. I appeared in the background of a Thanksgiving picture holding a serving spoon. I was on the edge of a Christmas morning shot, halfway cropped, wearing pajamas and handing someone wrapping continue reading …