Mar 29, 2022
In the last episode, I had recounted the painful experiences during the days after my father’s sudden death. There was a massive funeral for him, and after a one week mourning period, I had returned to my eleventh-grade world. And it was really difficult trying to navigate my way back to normal life. The whole...
Mar 22, 2022
The last episode ended with the actual death of my father and the events that happened to me were an exact replay of the precognitive dream that I’d had the night before.
In the Wilt, Ike & Me book, a lot of things happen right after his death. He died on a Friday, and here is a quick look at what happened the very...
Mar 15, 2022
This is the fourth episode in a series about the unusual events that happened to me before and after my father’s sudden death. In the first two episodes, I had experienced a few possible signs of an impending disaster. But in the last episode, I had a troubling, recurring nightmare three nights in a row. Then I had...
Mar 8, 2022
The series of episodes concerning the unusual events just before and after the death of my father continues. Coming from some chapters in my memoir, “Wilt, Ike & Me,” the series began when my father told me he would never be the grandfather to the child who was about to be born to my brother and his wife. Then I...
Mar 1, 2022
This is the second episode in a series of excerpts from my memoir, Wilt, Ike & Me. The last one took place at the end of the summer of 1965 when instead of being able to continue with my sizzling teenage summer romance, I unexpectedly had to drive to Brooklyn with my parents to attend my first funeral.
In the chapters...