My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
What there is, is good but what is missing is the choice not to have it, to have instead something else. Age and illness have limited what might be, making his world a not uncomfortable one, but one that has grown suddenly too small.
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