My Daughter Tried to Keep Me Out of the Lake House I Built, But When She Arrived for the Fourth of July, I Had Already Made Room

sat in the sand and built a crooked sandcastle with her bare hands and laughed like a child. Pearl waded into the ocean on the second day and by the third was swimming badly but joyfully, coming up sputtering and shouting, “I am not afraid of anything anymore.” Rosalyn sang on the porch after dinner while two families walking by stopped on the boardwalk continue reading …