My Link to Elvis

The Musical Memoirs Takes a Detour to Graceland 
There weren’t many famous people from the little town  my mother grew up in.
One of her childhood friends became a running back with the New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Viking before losing his final game – a deadly contest of Russian roulette – at the age […]

They didn’t break a leg out there — they died.

Whenever someone dies doing something they love — say, for example, knitting or wrestling grizzly bears — other people feel compelled to shake their heads somberly and say: “Well, he would’ve wanted to go that way.”
I know we have an inherent need to find a bright side to premature deaths. But when someone says something […]