The Heartbreaking Sound of a Voice from the Past
Category: PARENTS
Our culture is vigilant about documenting faces with photographs before they grow and change. But their voices? Those seem to disappear into time and history like a curling spiral of smoke rising up into the sky. Just like that -- poof -- and the voices are gone.
By Sarah Smiley, ContributorAuthor of the memoir DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS, 2014-10-15