I Came Home After Two Weeks Away And My Daughter In Law Asked What I Was Doing In The House I Bought With My Own Money

I smiled. Yes, I wrote back. Come by tomorrow. We will have tea.

I sat there a while longer, listening to the water move through the leaves of the rosebush, watching the light in the kitchen window, feeling the particular rightness of being exactly where I had a right to be.

Then I went inside, locked my door, turned off the lights one by one, and went continue reading …