November 7

This seems like ancient history and it seems like only yesterday, but it was one year ago that my father, James A. Fallows MD, died at his home in California. I can't help mentioning him, and my late mother Jean, today.

I saw this picture, thanks to my siblings, only after his death. I think this is from his late 40s or early 50s. Thanks to many people who wrote a year ago, after I mentioned what he and my mother had meant to their small community and their children. For reasons of distraction, volume, and general life chaos I never responded to most messages, but I appreciated them.