The day before Robert died was an otherwise perfect June day in Connecticut: warm but not hot, with a bit of a breeze, flawless blue sky, puffy white clouds….
Tara Kelly
Tara Kelly has worked as a columnist, features writer, and copyeditor for The Lakeville Journal, a volunteer EMT, the front of house manager/muse/substitute bottlewasher for her late husband's two restaurants, writer/producer in the Marketing Department of Lifetime Television, and as reluctant first mate on a wooden boat on the coast of Maine, all while raising two children and riding her horse as often as possible. She graduated from the Bennington College MFA Writing program in 2014. This essay is part of her memoir in progress.