Lessons from Lackey
Note: This appreciation of Pat’s journalism career ran in The Virginian-Pilot April 7, 2024; click here for its link. You can find Pat’s traditional obituary here. Pat Lackey could say in a few words what it takes most of us all day to say. That’s how one of Pat’s best friends — Fred Kirsch, himself a gifted writer — put it. I agree, with a slight twist: Pat Lackey could say with a short joke what it takes more-serious folk all day to say. Pat, my stepfather, died Easter Sunday. You might know him as the