After Setting a Boundary With My Family, I Learned Something Important at the Bank

it was enough.

It was not enough.

I noted this in my pilot log, on a page I titled Assessment, and I wrote what I actually thought rather than what I had been telling myself, and when I was done I had two pages of honest accounting and a clarity I hadn’t felt in some time.

Friday morning, I ate my eggs in the back booth and I tipped Carolyn well and I continue reading …