I'd Never Seen My Mother so Enraged

But it turned my grandfather into a kinder man

Rick Lewis archives - with grandpa in the maple tree

My grandfather could fix anything.

He mostly repaired oil burners by trade, but he was a mechanical genius who could set his permanently blackened fingers on any plumbing, electrical, or structural challenge and restore harmony and function to its parts.

He just couldn’t fix himself.

We found him on top o…