Dear dad, I was in a car accident last May—you know because I called you crying from the tow truck. The incident took seconds to happen, but in my memory, that moment before the fenders caved in slid by like chilled honey falling from a spoon. Those few heartbeats of panic, powerlessness and inevitability, stretched into months, is akin to what it felt like to witness you dying. When cars collide in movies, the action crawls past in hyper detail and glass shards shimmer as th

Written by his daughter As a man who was generally uninterested in fanfare, and, therefore, likely indifferent to having an obituary written for him, it is our great honour to purposely aggravate our father this final time. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi on January 28th, 1961, Michael James Kilby (Mike) passed away peacefully, attended by family, on July 5th 2019 around the time he was usually rising to make the hour’s drive to his automotive and RV repair shop. We like to think