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

of the bed with my pilot log open on the side table and I looked at the Yellowstone suitcase on the luggage rack and I thought about the drive Martha and I had taken in 1987 — thirty-seven years ago, which I could not have told you when I was twenty-four would feel like both very long and not long enough — and I thought about the bison in the headlights,continue reading …