I Let a Homeless Man Stay One Night and Came Home to a Different Apartment

but it was substantial. He sat at my kitchen table after the call and was quiet for a long time.

Then he asked if we could make soup.

We made soup. Caleb was in charge of the herbs, which he took seriously. Derek taught him how to bruise a bay leaf before you add it, how to tell when the onions had sweated enough by the smell they made. The kitchen continue reading …