Forever Odd

This book is for Trixie, though she will never read it. On the most difficult days at the keyboard, when I despaired, she could always make me laugh. The words good dog are inadequate in her case. She is a good heart and a kind soul, and an angel on four feet.

Unearned suffering is redemptive.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Look at those hands, Oh God, those hands toiled to raise me.

– Elvis Presley at his mother's casket