My Child Laughed And Said Dad Was There Until I Looked Closer

at him. He was watching me with serious eyes over the rim of his cereal bowl.

“Sometimes,” I said. “But not right now.”

He considered this. “Okay,” he said, and went back to his cereal.

That was it. He had asked and received an honest answer and filed it away and moved on, the way children do when the adults in their lives don’t make them carry more than continue reading …