Memories of Tatum

Tatum, Morgan, Amy and I had gathered around Gogo’s kitchen table to play Balderdash, a game where an obscure word is randomly chosen by a player and the other players have to make up the word’s definition. Then the group would vote on which they thought was the most likely. The funniest thing about that…

I met Tatum in March of 2021 and it was immediately clear that we would be good friends. We often found ourselves in nature, and he never hesitated to answer my obscure spur-of-the-moment questions. My favorite response was to a question I asked the day we met: ‘You think there are any critters under that…