I Bought My Daughter a House and at the Housewarming Her Toast Left Me in Tears

because houses are the kind of thing that cannot leave. I know how that sounds. I know how much of my own history is folded into that sentence. But Nancy had grown up in a life where the people who were supposed to stay sometimes didn’t, and I wanted to give her something that would be there every morning when she woke up, regardless of anything else.continue reading …