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

the evenings, zooming in on their faces the way you do when a screen is all you have been given. I live in New Mexico. They live in Oregon. That is a four-and-a-half-hour flight, which is not impossibly long, which is the kind of distance that surrenders to genuine effort.

The effort had not been genuine for a while. On both sides, if I am being fair,continue reading …