Author: Eric Leroy

John Donne the Elizabethan poet and Dean of St. Paul’s in London, once declared in a famous sermon that “No man is an island….”, adding that “Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, ” and concluding: “Therefore, do not send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.”

It hasn’t been a good season for fathers. Two of my

People are amazing creatures. They live incredibly long and almost never die. I had been living with them many years and became old, but saw that my dear family was almost the same. During all my long, very long life the time just slightly touched them with its inexorable wing. Yes, the girls became a little higher, sometimes came home late at night, sometimes left for