Andrew Hudgins has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in poetry and has published a memoir, The Joker (Simon & Schuster, 2014).
I spent my seventy-first birthday driving an hour from our home in rural Tennessee and sitting for six hours in and around the Murfreesboro Medical Center while my wife, Erin, had four toes on her left foot operated on. The right foot was...
