My Son Told Me Not to Come for Christmas but Two Days Later My Phone Would Not Stop Ringing

looked into his mug. “I was weak.”

“You were afraid,” I said. “That’s different, and it’s fixable. But you can’t fix it while someone else is paying for the performance.”

“I know.” A pause. “I knew. I think I knew for years. I just kept telling myself it was temporary and then it wasn’t temporary and then it was just the way things were.”

I thought about continue reading …