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

once, the way he used to do when we were young and the house was new and we could not quite believe we had made this life together out of nothing but intention and stubbornness.

Mostly, though, I had imagined a house full of noise.

When David and I got married, in a small ceremony in his parents’ backyard in June of 1988, he told me he wanted a big family.continue reading …