Does the name "Tad Mosel" ring a bell with anyone out there? If not, Google that name and read with interest, respect and awe what you find there.
Tad was our friend and neighbor in the retirement community where we live in Concord, New Hampshire. He moved here with his same-sex partner, Ray, in 1990. Ray died five years later of cancer and Tad tended to him at home as long as he could.
We were in awe of Tad at first because of his magnificent pedigree but once it was discovered we were all Gay, we had fun visiting back and forth with him - enjoying his humor and intelligence that sparkled with everything he said.
A slight stroke two years ago prompted Tad to move to the assisted living lodge within our community and we visited him there up until this past June when he was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. He's in the VNA Hospice House here in Concord now and grows weaker with each day that passes.
When he made this, his last move, he took his humor and sparkle right along with him. He revels in the humor of his frequent vomiting and retching, shouts "Eureka!" if he successfully swallows a sip of milk shake or bite of muffin and delights in the success of a catheter.
Tad won a Pulitzer Prize for his play, "All the Way Home". He needs another prize for the example he's setting for all of us now. Please Google "Tad Mozel" and say a prayer for his peaceful entrance into the alternative lifestyles offered in Heaven.
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