Mortality and Manners

Author transporting kids for the Community United Front Breakfast for Children Program in the red Karmann Ghia. Photo © 1969 by Alan Pogue. Used by Permission. It’s red, honest.

“Sometimes,” Dr. Hillary Miller told me, “you have a good reason to be depressed.” She had just written me a prescription for an industrial strength anti-depressant.

I was a full time judge at the time. She knew and I knew that prescription would send me home. The cases, of course, would keep coming. The Travis…