"Saying Goodbye" by Howard Pearre

This North Carolina writer remembers touchingly the intricate and the delicate, the lovely and the lovable in the passing of a parent.

Howard Pearre lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  He has published short fiction and memoir essays in Second Spring and Bearing Up anthologies, and GreenPrints magazine.  He retired as a manager with NC Vocational Rehabilitation and later as a counselor with the Department of Veterans Affairs.  He volunteers at Reynolda Gardens, conducts voter registration training workshops, and strives to keep up with six widely-dispersed grandchildren.  He is a member of Winston-Salem Writers.