An Elderly Woman Warned Me Not To Touch The Snow—The Next Morning, I Understood Why

in the dark with a shovel clearing the driveway and walkways—these tracks would be lost. Buried under my own footprints, blurred by the snow that fell afterward, indistinguishable from the mess of a yard that had already been walked through. But because the yard was untouched, because I had listened to an old woman in a grocery store and done nothing,continue reading …