Ed Pratt: Remembering Ms. Della

A week ago, like always after visiting my mother-in-law’s house in Delhi and arriving home, I grabbed my phone to announce that I had safely made the nearly three-hour drive through Gilbert, Crowville, Sicily Island and Vidalia.The phone rang once or twice before it hit me: For the first time in 42 years, there would be no answer from that number ever again. My mother-in-law had passed. Ms. Della, her house, the central focus of a family, was... + full article