Walking Old Roads with Tammy Hader

Walking Old Roads, by Tammy Hader. Available here.

In my heart and mind, Tammy Hader’s Walking Old Roads will forever be linked with my memory of my mother.

She (my mother, not Tammy) was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer while I was in the middle of reading Hader’s book. I continued to read the book in fits and spurts while caring for my mother through home hospice. There were heavy thoughts and heavier feelings throughout — sometimes good and…