My Turn: By her side every Father's Day
Photo credit: Handout | Bob Brody with children, Michael and Caroline, and wife, Elvira, in the summer of 1995.
My husband and I held hands looking down at my parents' graves. My dad had passed away five years ago, and my mom, last May. The day was sunny and the sky clear; my mind unsettled with thoughts of the loss of my parents.
I remember receiving the call from my mother when I was just 25: "Your dad had a massive brain hemorrhage. I don't know if he'll make it." At the time, I was visiting my boyfriend,...