Today, I’ve been working at home going through my dad’s paperwork, and making phone calls. It is at times reconnecting (I’ve made a few calls to folks I haven’t spoken to in years) and frustrating (discovering some of the stuff that my mother did ages ago that may still live to haunt me). I’ve found history I’ve never known about, such as my father’s diplomas from elementary school, my mom’s Jewish confirmation certificate, the divorce degree from my father’s first marrage (which he never talked about)… and the picture to the right.
Folks probably know I’m a gamer. I love playing board games. What I never knew was that my brother was as well. This picture shows him excitedly opening a copy of Avalon Hill’s Civil War, an early war game. I recalled in the fog of my memory seeing the game Air Empire—that must have been Rick’s as well.
Wow. Thirty-four years after my brother’s death, and I’m learning new things about him. I wonder if my father was a gamer when he was young, although his family was probably too poor to afford such games.
