Tell Me Today
4 min readJul 18, 2019
On the importance of saying what needs to be said now.
My mom called to me from the kitchen, announcing Jack’s arrival.
We greeted each other like long-lost relatives — the kind who actually like each other. Jack was one of my father’s closest friends, if not his best friend. They’d worked together first at one Philadelphia engineering firm, then another, then a third. Along with a few other guys — Joe, the…