My Parents Left Me in the ICU and Flew to Cancun Until I Saw the Same Name on the Visitor Log Every Night

and occasionally about the larger and more complicated things, the history and the years and the shape of what might have been if things had gone differently, and we have learned to hold that conversation without needing it to resolve into something tidy. Some things do not resolve. They just become familiar enough to carry without effort.

I no longer continue reading …