I Traveled Across the Country to See My Son but He Told Me to Wait Outside Like a Stranger

a thermos of coffee and absolutely no idea what I was watching. Nick at twelve in the kitchen doorway with a permission slip he had forgotten to show me until the night before the trip. Nick at nineteen leaving for college with a duffel bag over each shoulder, not looking back until he was halfway down the walk, and then looking back, and the looking continue reading …