Derek MINTZER

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze, and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says: "There! She´s gone!" Gone where? Gone from my sight - that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as...

Dear Michelle & Derek Jr, I'm not certain we have met but I know of you both, your Dad was proud of you. Please know that he touched so many folks, he had a plethora of friends that would come visit him, and he was a good friend to me and many others. I share in your sadness. Your Dad and I were neighbors in Fountainview for seven years but we were so much more than that, he was my brother, my confidante, and this is a tremendous loss. Derek would walk down to my place several...