
Surely Alive! (and thanks, Mom!)
“Opperman!” It was my boss. “You have a call on line two. It’s a personal call.” My daughters knew not to call me at work for anything less than an emergency. As I approached the desk, I remember wondering what would constitute an emergency in their world on that particular day. Only it wasn’t my daughters calling. It was Dad. He stammered a bit and asked me to meet him at the emergency room. It wasn’t his words so much as the rhythmic counting of someone doing CPR in the bac