Where the title "Early Morning Phone Calls" come from.

The worst phone calls come early in the morning. No one really wants to be up at 6 or 7 a.m. So I know when I get a phone call at that time of morning it must be serious. If my phone rings anytime after mid-night it usually means someone is sick, dead, or dying. For many years I actually went to sleep the night before dreading that early morning phone call. Knowing it was coming some day but not realizing there would be 2 calls in a 3 month period. This blog, however, will not be totally dedicated to those early morning phone calls but to life leading up to them and those lives which have been affected since. These are the stories of my life. The good, the bad, the ugly.