It was Mother's Day, about halfway through spring. While Ron Lawson and the rest of Kyburz were digging out from under a few tons of snow, North Jersey had a high of 60 under partly sunny skies. It was a great day to take mom out for dinner. Kyburz gets 3 to 4 feet of snow in a typical winter. But when it's 100 degrees in Sacramento, you're not going to see snow up here.
Life is calmer here than in Sacramento.
I step outside and take a breath. The air is sweet. You can't do that in Sacramento anymore. This is my last stop. To understand his loneliness, you must know that he was born in the Bronx and raised in Jackson Heights, that he graduated from New York University and Cumberland Law School in Montgomery, Ala., and hated New York winters so much that he knew that after law school he was staying in the South.