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

reached the sidewalk and turned at the corner and stood there with my suitcase and my gift bag and my blue dress in the October light, and I called a cab from the street because I did not want to stand in front of his house while I waited for it.

The driver asked where to and I said anywhere cheap. He took me to a motel ten minutes away, the kind of continue reading …