The table at Vanessa’s house was set the way my mother always set a table when she wanted something, which is to say it was set beautifully. The good napkins […]
It was 11:42 in the evening and Jenna was waving a champagne flute like she was conducting something, and Brooke had the tiara on sideways because Hannah kept adjusting it […]
I went to the grocery store for a pack of lightbulbs, and I was not planning on saying anything to anyone. That is the honest beginning of the story, the […]
The pie arrived before I had unpacked a single box. I had been in the house for less than forty-eight hours, still operating in the exhausted and slightly disoriented state […]
Shadow The earrings were my idea. No one suggested them, no one encouraged them, and no one needed to know. They were for me. I had spent months looking at […]
The morning my marriage ended, the sky could not decide what it wanted to be. Not rain, not sun, just the flat pale nothing that settles over a city when […]
Elena The church in Savannah was full. People from town, old neighbors, a few of my mother’s friends from the hospital where she had volunteered on Tuesday afternoons for the […]
My grandson called me in the middle of the night. At that hour, no phone call has ever brought good news. I jolted awake in my silent apartment and reached […]
My son left me with a five-dollar bill and flew to Europe for six weeks. That is the sentence I have been turning over in my mind ever since, because […]
Come In, Mom A story about the difference between being invited and being wanted I have a box of photographs in my bedroom closet that I look at sometimes on […]