My Granddaughter Was Left Behind While They Went on Vacation So I Showed Up the Next Day

went up on the walls, taped with the confident asymmetry of a child who has decided this space belongs to her. Her books went on a shelf she chose herself, organized by some system that made sense only to her and that I had the good sense not to question. She talked more. Laughed more. Started taking up space as if she had a right to it, which of course continue reading …