At a Family Picnic My Daughter in Law Tried to Humiliate Me Until My Oldest Daughter Spoke Up

to fill the bird feeder Harold had built years before, the cedar one that still held its shape if not its color, and I watched two finches argue over the same perch as though the world might end before either of them found room.

The baby was born on a Thursday in May. Carol told me first while we were buying tomato plants at a garden center, my phone continue reading …