I Returned From Deployment to Find My Family Living in My House Until One Date on the Paper Changed Everything

is its own kind of dishonesty, but as something that was mine in a way it had not been before. I chose new paint, a warm white that caught the morning light differently than the grey I had used before, because the grey had been chosen by a younger version of me who associated seriousness with restraint, and I no longer needed my walls to prove anything continue reading …