The death of ones’ child is every parent’s worst nightmare; it stalks every parent, I suspect, from birth until the parent isn’t able to worry about it anymore.  There is no lighter side, no joking, no redeeming quality to the subject, even when it’s just a nightmare that you can wake up from.

When it’s for real?

I don’t even want to think about it, to tell you the truth.

And so I give my simple, unvarnished condolences to Mike Hatch and his family.  And I urge you all to give them your prayers, or whatever it is you believe in.