You have NO idea how my eyes lit up at that last paragraph! Yowza!
I've been really enjoying podcast short stories lately - PRI's "Selected Shorts" and "New Yorker Fiction." You might really like those, Martha, on your less-than-terrific days; the readers are very, very good.
If "The adago of oars" is a misprint that was missed by the proofreader, it might well be "adagio" -- slow - as in Barber's "Adagio for Strings."
I have just finished Christopher Buckley's Losing Mum and Pup. Buckley's parents (William F., Jr. and Pat Buckley) died a little over a year apart. The book is a fairly simple re-telling of that year - of what it's like to deal with losing a parent, caring for another in decline, then losing that one as well.
The writing is good; the emotions are clear though understated (as one might expect from back East, old money.) Somehow, even though I have nothing at all in common with a family like this, I found the story moving. I do recommend it; it's a quick read but a good one.
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