Updated: Dear Lowes, Thank you for giving this story a happy ending! This story needs a happy ending. You can make that happen. A while back, my Dad and Mom paid Lowes to put new siding on their home in Woodbury, N.J. After my Dad died this year, my brother and I realized Lowes had failed…
Kelly and Portia are home, awaiting our return. We’re in Woodbury, New Jersey, my hometown, 1,700 miles, a cultural divide and a three-day drive from San Antonio. I’m going through my Dad’s remarkable photos, negatives, slides, and prints. Life here is like a combination of Groundhog Day, with familial behavior patterns in a never-changing loop,…
Joe Lucas was a gregarious iconoclast, an uncompromising defender of civil liberties and human rights and a passionate Atheist, preaching to all who would listen. He was born on Jan. 19, 1933, to Anna Kathryn Thaidigsman and Joseph Biddle Lucas in the Riverside, New Jersey, home built in the 1890s by his German immigrant grandparents.…
I struggle to write my Dad’s obit. And then I rewrite it. And rewrite it again. Where in the world to start? My Dad taught me to read before I entered Kindergarden, he taught me to be a photographer, how to build and fly radio control model airplanes, how to fish, how to paddle a canoe…