I Sat Alone Waiting for My Kids on My 60th Birthday Then a Police Officer Arrived With Unexpected News

fantasize about silence the way some people fantasize about vacation, about an hour, just an hour, of nobody needing anything from me. I said it out loud sometimes, dramatically, to David or to my sister on the phone, and I meant it when I said it and I also did not mean it, the way you can hold two contradictory truths simultaneously about the life continue reading …