My Daughter In Law Told Me To Sell The Cabin And Leave The Lake House I Built

up, listening to the loons call across the lake, and I thought about all the years I had been useful to everyone except myself. The years I had kept the peace. The years I had mistaken endurance for virtue. I thought about the retirement parties of men I had known who had spent their final working years already half-dead inside, shuffling toward some continue reading …