I pulled into my own driveway and saw strangers moving through my living room. Not strangers, exactly. That would have been simpler. These were people I had known my entire […]
The cake was still floating when I understood that everything between my brother and me was already broken. I just hadn’t known it yet. People describe life-changing moments as lightning […]
The Empty Chairs No one from my family showed up to my husband Bobby’s funeral—not my parents, not even my best friend since childhood—because they chose my sister’s engagement party […]
The Man on the Bus On the way to the divorce court, I helped an old man onto the bus. He insisted on coming with me, saying, “You shouldn’t go […]
The sunlight in Lisbon didn’t behave the way it did in Seattle. Back home, light was something tentative and apologetic, diffusing through layers of perpetual cloud cover like a secret […]