One day, however, Lily came to Mr. Huggles with a question that left the little bear feeling very uneasy. She had noticed that her father had been drinking a lot of alcohol lately, and she wanted to know why. Lily had seen her father stumble around the house, slurring his words and ...
and begins to sing, phrasing words like a jazz master, modulating, caressing his songs. The audience is his in an instant. He plays for 40 minutes--a long time for him, and late for the crowd, for it is midnight when the vaunted reunion finally happens. Owens’ song “Love’...