What We Talk About With Our Father Before His Surgery

Today my father, Dr. Eddie Adelstein, 78, is in the hospital for hip replacement surgery. It’s not a complicated surgery — but it is necessary. Like the graveyard of SAABs on our farm and his 1962* Corvette and his collection of old…

So sorry for your loss. The choices we make become horribly resonant when someone dies. Whatever we do or don’t do, depending on what suddenly happens next, we beat ourselves up over for years.

I wasn’t there when my dad died. He was dosed up on morphine and he drifted in and out of having no idea what was going on to…

What I Will Tell My Son

K — ,

You will be in a room with girls and boys some day, having a beer or worse. I know you can’t imagine this, because you are 11 years old and told me yesterday you will never drink alcohol, ever. We’ll see.

Eulogy for my father

My Dad taught me how to love stories. How to really value stories.

Because if you knew Jerry Waldman you knew he had a story for you.

All he needed was a few details and he was off and running…