
And today, I need this message more than usual.
My beloved, brilliant, beautiful, and benevolent father-in-law died suddenly on Monday morning. We will have literal ashes in our possession by week's end. Ashes of a man who rarely had a harsh word, raised voice, or absent smile. A man who I am grateful every day for being the model of what manhood is to my husband, and thus now to my son and daughter.