There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them.
It is not in my nature to be interested in the living. But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.
Even then I found the word fitting, soothing. Fireflies. Fire flies. Fire, fly.
Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and I get into enough trouble with them as it is.
Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about comforting the people they leave behind.
