Hackett: Little moments still matter in loss

Hackett: Little moments still matter in loss

I wanted to text my dad last week. I changed an old electrical outlet in our house. It wasn’t easy. The old school tabbed outlet wouldn’t release the wires easily, so I had to use wire cutters to clip them off the old outlet (yes Dad, the power was off). I didn’t have proper wire strippers, so I used wire cutters and an exacto knife to trim the old rubber off the wire so I could wrap it around the terminals. Another no-no, because he always had …