Mother Inferior

I’m glad Rose Mofford isn’t my mother. She’d probably never shut up about those years when she chauffeured me back and forth to the orthodontist. “There were a lot of other things I wanted to be doing,” she’d remind me. “But time and again I gave up my plans for…

Jack Durant’s Humble Will and Testament

The Jack Durant legend lives on. When he died little more than a year ago, Durant had lived more than eighty years and had run the successful bar and restaurant bearing his name on Central Avenue since 1950. He died without heirs. Reportedly, there was $500,000 in certificates of deposit…