My Daughter in Law Showed Up With Suitcases and Said They Were Moving Into My Chalet

I wake up most mornings now, which is to say without an alarm, without urgency, without the low-grade dread that used to accompany the first minutes of consciousness when I was still living a life organized around other people’s needs. I had made coffee and stood at the great room window watching the peaks take on color as the sun rose over them, pink continue reading …