Genevieve Liu sits back in bed each night, still thinking of her father before she sleeps. He used to sing the same song to his children at bedtime, often before he’d head to surgery to save the life of someone else’s child.
“I’m leaving on a jet plane,” Don Liu would sing. “Don’t know when I’ll be back again.”
But he left in a way no one could have anticipated: On a family outing in 2012, he drowned in Lake Michigan. That he died helping two children get to safety on a windy, choppy day did not surprise those who knew him.
See Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more about the journey that lead Genevieve to start a blog that’s helping children who have lost a parent connect with one another while learning to cope with their loss.