My Family Said I Could Not Afford Dad’s Birthday Dinner Until The Truth Came Out – The Archivist

Michael’s books. The botany texts he’d read in the early years of our marriage when he was trying to understand my work. The fishing books he’d collected with the enthusiasm of someone who loved fishing and the slight guilt of someone who rarely had time to do it. A worn paperback copy of Steinbeck’s East of Eden with a cracked spine that I remembered continue reading …