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

children left for college and jobs and apartments in other cities, and how to sit at the same kitchen table with the noise reduced to one or two voices and feel the absence of the rest without letting that absence swallow the evening whole.

I had learned, in other words, how to keep going.

When my sixtieth birthday approached, I began planning a dinner continue reading …